The
NYT writes:
A recent survey by the American College Counseling Association found that ...44 percent in counseling have severe psychological disorders, up from 16 percent in 2000, and 24 percent are on psychiatric medication, up from 17 percent a decade ago. The most common disorders today: depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, alcohol abuse, attention disorders, self-injury and eating disorders.
Forty-six percent of college students said they felt “things were hopeless” at least once in the previous 12 months, and nearly a third had been so depressed that it was difficult to function, according to a 2009 survey by the American College Health Association.
Many teachers in Israel share my opinion that many students here are perturbed (Hebrew: מופרעים ) tending to crazy, that in addition of being semi-morons. What's going on?
The NYT writes:
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Maybe it's hit them that they are wasting their time, accumulating massive debt, and won't have jobs when they graduate.
Therefore to be crazy is perfectly normal.
There are many reasons for this perturbation, J: 1) The security situation: wars, terror attacks, the sensation of being surrounded by enemies; 2) Israelis work long hours and don't pay enough attention to their kids; afterwards, moved by guilt, they are unable to put limits, turning them into spoiled brats; 3) The reforms introduced by the liberal Meretz in 1992, completely fucked up everything (as told by Israeli High School teachers)
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You ask for reasons and then when someone gives some fairly plausible ones (maybe the right ones, maybe not), you excuse them of making excuses.
People were always crazy but it was underdiagosed in the past or not considered an illness. "Alcohol abuse" among students is not a disease, it is a rite of passage. Professionals have a vested interest in medicalizing problems so they can treat them and get paid for doing so.
K
Accuse, not excuse.
K
Being surrounded by enemies does nothing to us. It does not affect us, we are used to it. We think little of what our enemies think of us.
Israeli students are not spoiled brats, they arrive to college after 3 and half years of active military service.
Meretz reforms are long forgotten, anyway students never believed what they were thought by the dinosaurs.
Israeli students behave like מופרעים because it is allowed, there is little discipline or punishment.
"Israeli students behave like מופרעים because it is allowed, there is little discipline or punishment."
Exactly, and it fits with points 2 and 3. The Meretz reforms I meant were in the discipline field.
Israeli youth, even in their student or soldier format, are brats. You conserve an idealized image, because 20 years ago they weren't so, but today's youth is different.
And the constant war does something, negating or relativizing it is just our defense mechanism...
You'd think they'd provide the phone number.
Anon.
These signs are mounted directly above call boxes that automatically dial when you pick up the receiver so there is no need to provide a number, at least while the boxes are working.
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sad.jpg
K
Aah, mea culpa.
I will look out for them when I next open my phone bill.
Anon.
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