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Are you mentally well enough for college?

  • Written by Nicholas Joyce, Psychologist, University of South Florida
College students are seeking mental health treatment on campus at record levels. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

Last spring an 18-year-old college freshman who got straight A’s in high school – but was now failing several courses – came to my office on the campus where I work as a psychologist.

The student was seeking a med...

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