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Curing campus blues

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US News and World Report, (Oct 24, 2004)

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Nearly 1 in 2 undergraduates will become severely depressed at some time during college, according to surveys by the American College Health Association. And recent research suggests that a much higher proportion than in past years will contemplate suicide. Shocked by the rapid rise in mental illness on campus, psychiatrist Richard Kadison, chief of Harvard's mental health service, wrote College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It (Jossey-Bass, $24.95). The new book, coauthored by Theresa Foy DiGeronimo, helps parents understand what stresses cause kids to descend into darkness--and how to lend a hand.

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