Too Much for one college student to handle

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College is a new chapter of a student’s life. It can be difficult at first for students to adapt. Adding new and difficult schoolwork and sports to this adaptation only makes it worst. An article published by the National Alliance on Mental Illness states “More than 40 percent of college students have felt more than an average amount of stress within the past 12 months. More than 80 percent of college students felt overwhelmed by all they had to do in the past year and 45 percent have felt things were hopeless”(nami.org). College students experience an overwhelming amount of pressure put upon them to be successful in their academics; therefore, adding athletics into the mix adds on more stress which leads to depression.

School and depression go hand in hand; one affects the other or vice versa. Students are affected mentally, physically, and also emotionally because of the pressures to do well in school and the exceeding amount of school work they receive. A college student who does not participate in a sport or activity will have less stress than an athlete trying to manage school and sports. There has been a few experiences in the past where people have went over the edge because of the overload of school work, exceeding in the school work and doing a sport. Madison Holleran and Paige Aiello are examples of these experiences.

Students place pressures on themselves to succeed in school. When they fail to reach these expectations, they begin to crash not only in school, but in sports or activities also. It is said in studies that students who have a good mental health do better in school. If you’re setting impossible goals for yourself to accomplish, your mental health will be poor, leading to your performance in the classroo...

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