Forty people in a university were diagnosed with depression.
In July, thousands of college graduates are about to devote themselves to new roles. In the noise of parting, there is such a group of people standing in the corner who have been silent. This is an increasing number of depressed patients in colleges and universities. They are suffering from pain, loneliness and isolation that ordinary people can’t understand. It is really difficult for him to finish his graduation thesis and find a decent job at the moment. A recent survey by the reporter of Beiqing Daily found that 40 people in a famous key university in Beijing were diagnosed with depression, accounting for about 20% of the visits of the school psychological counseling center. College students with high intelligence and strong desire to win have become a high-risk group of depression.
survey
Depressed students account for 20% of the visitors to the counseling center.
"Hello, this is the psychological hotline for college students who cherish their lives in Li Jiajie. Can I help you?" A fixed opening remark, at the moment when the phone was connected, the receiver hesitated for several seconds and slowly spit out: "Hello, I want to consult some questions related to depression. I have been insomnia for 3 months … …” Xiao Qing, a student volunteer who has been connected for three years, still feels nervous and sweaty when she meets a caller who claims to be depressed.
Since the opening of "Li Jiajie Cherish Life Psychological Hotline for College Students" for 7 years, this hotline has listened to the voices of nearly 10,000 people from all over the country. Qin Lin, director of the hotline, told Beiqing Daily that the reporter would receive nearly three or four students’ radio waves for help every six hours online. Zhang Wen (pseudonym), the head of another mental health education center of a famous university in Beijing, said: "According to rough statistics, five years ago, one or two of the 10 clients had depression on average, but now it has risen to 3-4."
At present, colleges and universities in Beijing generally have mental health centers, which are mainly responsible for psychological investigation, mental health education, psychological classes and counseling. The school also arranges full-time psychological teachers and is equipped with special counseling centers. Here, although you can’t make clinical diagnosis like a professional hospital, it is the first "defense line" to prevent crisis and screen depression.
When talking about the group of college students suffering from psychological crisis, Zhang Wen, who has been working in the front line of university psychological counseling for a long time, bluntly said: "Among them, depression accounts for a relatively high proportion. Last year, there were about 1,500 visitors to the center, and depression accounted for 20% of the number of consultants. According to our statistics, a total of 40 students in the school were diagnosed with depression, and this number should be even higher if they were actually sick but did not come to consult. "
When these students come, they often talk about trifles such as "I’m under a little pressure to study recently", "How is it with my tutor (friend)" and "I’m lovelorn". Only when they completely let their guard down can they transition to a deeper topic: "Summarizing can be divided into four categories: study, interpersonal love, family and questioning the meaning of life." Regarding the psychological crisis of students, the situation of each school is different, and different types of colleges and universities face different problems. "Art universities focus on emotional issues, while comprehensive key universities focus on academics."
Depression, as a mental illness, has obvious abnormal reactions in emotion, cognition, motivation and physiology, and it is usually in the above aspects to judge whether it is sick or not. "If you lose interest in life, you will feel meaningless. In serious cases, you will have suicidal tendencies." Zhang Wen remembers receiving a girl who had undergone psychological counseling for three and a half years. At that time, the girl couldn’t even remember a short sentence of more than seven words. "I am sick, and my body and mind are in great pain. It is often difficult for ordinary people to understand. Our process is to ask the symptoms first. If it is serious, it is recommended to refer me and inform my family members or teachers. If it is not serious, I will have psychological counseling."
"I’m not good enough" is a high-frequency word in the mouths of visiting students in the center. Contrary to the usual idea of "just study hard", key university students with excellent grades have already occupied a certain number of depressed groups. They are extremely strict with themselves and often show feelings of guilt and self-blame. "Many children I have come into contact with are smart and sensible, and they have a strong motivation to win. For a long time, emotions such as self-blame or anger have been suppressed, which makes them point their attacks at themselves. "
particular case
Unable to defend my thesis, I had to drop out of school.
When it was time to say goodbye after graduation, Xiaoyu (pseudonym), a third-year doctoral student, did not show up at this year’s reunion dinner. She was ill. On the long road of fighting depression, Xiaoyu’s thesis defense has been in the foreseeable future, and graduation can only be postponed. She said the disease had no wound and no bleeding. "If you are depressed, don’t push me. It’s riddled with holes and leaks everywhere."
Xiaoyu, a liberal arts major at a well-known university in Haidian, Beijing, has always been quiet and introverted, but she is extremely active on social networks and updates almost every day. Looking at Xiaoyu’s WeChat circle of friends, I generally don’t notice that she is suffering from depression, and it has been 5 years. When spitting in the circle of friends became a blatant way of "selling cute", few people noticed her loneliness and pain that was occasionally open. This New Year, she wrote the sentence "Accept the best and worst of yourself".
Since the master’s degree was diagnosed as depression, she has suffered from three diseases, twice at home and once during an exchange abroad. The latest illness was during the writing of a doctoral thesis, and she was troubled by the double pressure of thesis and employment. For several months, she often suffered from insomnia, and her physical condition became worse and worse, and depression struck again. "Attention drops, I can’t remember things, and I can’t write at all. I have eaten dozens of antidepressants and endured the side effects of nausea, weakness and soreness. These are mixed with the symptoms of depression itself, and life is worse than death. "
When asked why he got depressed, Xiaoyu was at a loss. "I wouldn’t be depressed if I knew the specific reasons for getting sick. It’s like a cold, and I accidentally got caught up." In the second year of her master’s degree, she suffered from insomnia all night. In panic, she kept asking herself why. Sleep disorder leads to paralysis of study. "Even when I cooked a jiaozi sticky pot, I had to make a profound self-criticism and then rose to self-doubt, ‘ You can’t even cook a jiaozi now! ’” After several urging from friends, she came to the school psychological counseling center. After receiving several counseling sessions, the psychological teacher suggested that she go to the Sixth Hospital of Beijing Medical University and was soon diagnosed with severe depression.
Zhang Teng (pseudonym), an undergraduate majoring in computer science, had a more tortuous and long process of diagnosis of depression than Xiaoyu. It was not until last semester of his senior year that he really "collapsed" before depression and dropped out of school to go home. "When I entered school, I didn’t like my university and major, and I had a psychological gap. In addition, my girlfriend who talked about long-distance love at that time was very confused and couldn’t get out of that sad mood. I began to look for all kinds of books to read and test, and suddenly I felt depressed. At first, neither my parents nor I believed it. When I was dying, I was so sick that I had to drop out of school. " Most of the cases of depressed college students interviewed by the reporter of Beiqing Daily have struggled in a vicious circle of "being strong before others and being depressed after others", and they are suffering from hidden depression.
characteristic
Feature 1
"Shame of illness" makes it difficult for students to get sick in school.
Zhang Tengtan, a former patient with severe depression, accepted many patients of the same age he had contacted, who were often reluctant to show others at the beginning. According to public statistics, the number of people who commit suicide in China is at least 130,000 every year, and 40% of them suffer from depression when they commit suicide.
Students interviewed at random generally feel that depression is not far away, but they don’t know much about its basic knowledge and diagnosis and treatment. Most of them understand it from previous media reports. Yang Fude, president of Beijing huilongguan hospital, said in an interview at the end of last year that the number of patients with depression in China currently exceeds 26 million. According to the data of epidemiological investigation carried out by general hospitals in Beijing, nearly 10% of patients have depression, and less than 10% of them have received specialist treatment.
Because psychological problems are hidden, it is difficult for teachers to find out if the parties avoid them. The difficulty of pre-screening students with depression in colleges and universities can be seen. Faced with these difficulties, Zhang Wen and Qin Lin both laughed. "It is unlikely that children who come to see us will go to extremes." They feel that the top priority is still "desensitization", so that students and parents can face up to mental illness instead of demonizing depression. "The number of students suffering from depression on campus is increasing year by year, but some students and even their parents will feel ashamed and deliberately avoid communication. Some children are seriously ill and even refuse to see a doctor."
Feature 2
Dr. Shuo’s depression has shown an upward trend.
Professor Lin Guirui, honorary president of Beijing University Psychological Quality Education Research Association, has been conducting research on "college students’ psychological crisis groups" for years. Through a large number of case studies, she found that these depression groups of college students have some commonalities, such as: the proportion of students with bad family relationships or parent-child relationships is relatively high; Although the proportion of graduate students is not high at present, it has shown an upward trend.
Compared with undergraduates, PhD students who have the same experience as Xiaoyu face more economic, academic or family problems, and they are under greater and more complicated pressure. Zhang Wen recalled that he had intervened in a crisis with a male doctor who didn’t take a bath for a month. "I have been studying for 6 years but I can’t graduate. The incentive is the impact of papers and tutors, and he can only drop out of school in the end. "
When Xiaoyu’s classmates talked about her, they admired and envied her talent and hard work, but felt that the girl pushed herself too hard. One year abroad, Xiaoyu once struggled to translate a 600-page English book during her illness. Xiaoyu’s tutor was considerate of his disciples and advised Xiaoyu not to be impatient and to listen to the doctor’s arrangement. Fish said, "I am sick. Although he doesn’t say anything, I know that he is in the same mood as his parents. If there is something wrong with the students who have worked hard to train, it will be a great blow to the mentor. "
Under the current university management system, the coverage of psychological education in colleges and universities for graduate students is far less than that of undergraduates. In view of the topic that graduate students’ mental health is not paid enough attention, an unnamed college psychological counseling teacher explained: "This situation has certain objective reasons, including the factors of institutional setup in colleges and universities. Generally speaking, the mental health center belongs to the academic department of colleges and universities, and the academic department is often responsible for the related problems of undergraduates, and it is of an assistance nature for graduate work. "
affect
Some employers will do psychological tests for entry.
In addition to the sense of shame, many college students interviewed at random also mentioned another hidden feeling of not wanting to go to psychological counseling: "If there is something wrong with my psychology here, will it let many people around me know, and will it affect my future employment?" Zhang Wen and Qin Lin’s answers dispelled the students’ concerns to a certain extent, because the psychological hotline and psychological consultation will never enter the students’ personal files.
"Keeping secrets for them is our professional requirement. Unless the student’s condition is very serious and has extreme behavior tendency, then we will definitely inform the school counselor and parents. At this point, we will explain it to the visitors before the consultation, and we will start our work with the consent. "
The reporter of Beiqing Daily noticed that mental health problems have been paid more and more attention by employers outside campus, and the psychological test for entry has become fashionable. Zhao Wen (pseudonym), a graduate, passed the written examination and interview of a public institution in the spring recruitment this year. During the physical examination, the unit asked her to go to the hospital for psychological evaluation besides physical examination. In the hospital, Zhao Wen met several job seekers who needed a mental health assessment test just like her. They were asked to fill out a psychological test. These topics involve mental health status, personality characteristics, marriage and family, studies and other closely related contents.
Afterwards, Zhao Wen learned that the doctor would make a preliminary conclusion according to the questionnaire, judge the current mental health status of the examinee, and speculate on the problems existing in the examinee’s body, work, life, family, study and other aspects. "Who can guarantee the authenticity of this questionnaire? If someone has been unable to find a job because of a psychological investigation and evaluation, is this a kind of discrimination and unfairness? "
A senior psychological evaluation expert said that employers often have different attitudes towards whether to have a psychological test when they enter the job. "48% of unit leaders think that the psychological health of candidates is more important than skills when recruiting. Even if the applicant is very capable, if there are psychological problems, the unit will give up. " However, he admits that there are indeed many units that ask them to do mental health assessment for new recruits, most of which are education, medical care, security and other units, and there are many job seekers who have been rejected because they failed the psychological test.
This edition/reporter Liu Xu