Suicide in college
The ongoing struggle to be “perfect” is surrounding the halls of many top ranked colleges in the U.S. The pressures of parents, school, and even athletics’ to be “perfect” can send anyone into depression. This is seen in a young girl, Madison Holleran’s heartbreaking story. Also, through a college student named Kathryn DeWitt who struggled with depression. Although the New York Times piece and the Split Image article have similar motives such as harms of social media, the New York Times has a solution of the psychological approach to depression, and Split Image is an emotional story to the horrifying, ending affects of major depression concerning perfection.
Madison Holleran was beautiful, smart, and athletic. These are all …show more content…
The problem was that Madison was a “perfectionist” (ESPN 5) and very worried about appearance and what everyone thought of her. She did not want friends and family to think that she was struggling, this is where social media becomes an issue in everyday life. It helps put on a front “everyone presents an edited version of life on social media” (ESPN 6) and take away pain. Girls love to post cute pictures on Instagram and Facebook to make them look “cool”, but no one knows what is actually going on in their minds. Madison’s family thought she was happy until she began showing signs of …show more content…
When the letter was written she finally realized what was happening and threw them away in the hopes she would forget those feelings. She was hospitalized after her roommate noticed they had been taken out of the trash and her life was, in the worst way, saved.
There were six University of Pennsylvania students who committed suicide that year. The university decided they needed to act fast so they formed a group called Penn Face. Penn Face is a program that encourages students to put on a bright face and being self- confident even in the worst of times. Many more top tier schools such as, Duke and Stanford have come up with ingenious ways to coup with student depression. At Stanford it is named Duck Syndrome. Even Ms. Dewitt has returned to University of Pennsylvania to help with the ongoing problem.
Many people have heard of the program to post “ugly selfies” on social media
The ongoing struggle to be “perfect” is surrounding the halls of many top ranked colleges in the U.S. The pressures of parents, school, and even athletics’ to be “perfect” can send anyone into depression. This is seen in a young girl, Madison Holleran’s heartbreaking story. Also, through a college student named Kathryn DeWitt who struggled with depression. Although the New York Times piece and the Split Image article have similar motives such as harms of social media, the New York Times has a solution of the psychological approach to depression, and Split Image is an emotional story to the horrifying, ending affects of major depression concerning perfection.
Madison Holleran was beautiful, smart, and athletic. These are all …show more content…
The problem was that Madison was a “perfectionist” (ESPN 5) and very worried about appearance and what everyone thought of her. She did not want friends and family to think that she was struggling, this is where social media becomes an issue in everyday life. It helps put on a front “everyone presents an edited version of life on social media” (ESPN 6) and take away pain. Girls love to post cute pictures on Instagram and Facebook to make them look “cool”, but no one knows what is actually going on in their minds. Madison’s family thought she was happy until she began showing signs of …show more content…
When the letter was written she finally realized what was happening and threw them away in the hopes she would forget those feelings. She was hospitalized after her roommate noticed they had been taken out of the trash and her life was, in the worst way, saved.
There were six University of Pennsylvania students who committed suicide that year. The university decided they needed to act fast so they formed a group called Penn Face. Penn Face is a program that encourages students to put on a bright face and being self- confident even in the worst of times. Many more top tier schools such as, Duke and Stanford have come up with ingenious ways to coup with student depression. At Stanford it is named Duck Syndrome. Even Ms. Dewitt has returned to University of Pennsylvania to help with the ongoing problem.
Many people have heard of the program to post “ugly selfies” on social media