America’s higher education system is facing a crisis: students’ mental health. A survey by TimelyMD found that 88 percent of college students are experiencing declining mental health, with 75 percent report being more stressed than they were in 2021, even as pandemic restrictions have relaxed.
While it’s clear that the pandemic and global unrest are still sources of the deterioration of a college student’s mental health, the reality is that the changes brought on by the past two years didn’t create the mental health epidemic, but they certainly exacerbated it.
