{"id":736,"date":"2019-09-04T16:26:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=736"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:58:22","slug":"suicide-on-campus-and-the-pressure-of-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/04\/suicide-on-campus-and-the-pressure-of-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By JULIE SCELFO, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, JULY 27, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/02\/education\/edlife\/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html?searchResultPosition=7\">Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article talked about collage students&#8217; stress level in relation to mental health problems from various perspectives including school work, peer pressure, etc. It pointed out that nowadays a lot of the collage students are &#8220;&#8230;ultra-focused on success but don\u2019t know how to fail&#8230;&#8221;, thus tragedies occur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;six Penn students&#8230;commit suicide in a 13-month stretch, and the school is far from the only one to experience a so-called suicide cluster. This school year, Tulane lost four students and Appalachian State at least three \u2014 the disappearance in September of a freshman, Anna M. Smith, led to an 11-day search before she was found in the North Carolina woods, hanging from a tree. Cornell faced six suicides in the 2009-10 academic year. In 2003-4, five New York University students leapt to their deaths. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Although this article primarily focused on students from Penn State University and how they struggle with their mental health problems, I think to an extent, the situation under discussion here can be generalized to a lot more college students. Student suicide is a major issue that we can not just let pass. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JULIE SCELFO, The New York Times, JULY 27, 2015 Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection This article talked about collage students&#8217; stress level in relation to mental health problems from various perspectives including school work, peer pressure, etc. It pointed out that nowadays a lot of the collage students are &#8220;&#8230;ultra-focused on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[80,28,85,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-focus","8":"tag-college-life","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-student","11":"tag-well-being"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}