Need For Student Mental Health Support Growing Amid Pandemic
Newsy
College students are increasingly turning to each other or to support groups to work on mental health struggles that began or intensified with COVID.
College is supposed to be one of the best times of a person's life as students experience freedom and learn new things, but the pandemic has changed that. COVID-19 limited social life, canceled internships and altered the learning environment, to name a few changes.
"It wasn't until spring of 2020 — I had to take a break because I got really bad," Brenda "Ren" Huerta, a junior at Bradley University, said. "I think the worst that I've ever been, very close to suicide, and it was just the isolation period I believe during COVID."
For Huerta, school life turned lonely. It triggered her depression, pushing her to take a semester off — a “mental health break” as she described it. But her depression is nothing new; it goes all the way back to when she was 11 years old.
