Abstract
This research paper will be exploring the topic of mental health among college students. Today, college students keep facing more and more stressors, such as academic stress, social stress, financial stress, and family stress. These increasing stressors have been leading to an increase in mental health problems and stress levels. These stress levels can also often turn and lead to mental illness. Under this umbrella, this paper will also be looking at how these stressors and mental health problems affect first-generation students. Additionally, it is important that different mental health resources (or lack of) for first-generation students on college campuses are explored because it is possible there is a gap that is not being met with these students. Many college students really do not understand a lot about this growing epidemic that is affecting their peers and do not know how to get help when it is needed. This problem has grown so large that the government has started to get involved and has been looking in ways they can help college students get the resources they need. Therefore, this paper will be discussing why mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, are rising, how they are affecting first-generation students, and what resources are being provided to help these students?
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