Growing Number Of College Students Are Being Diagnosed With PTSD Due To Covid Lockdowns

The following report is by The Trends Journal:

The rate of college students in the U.S. diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, which is commonly associated with soldiers returning from a warzone, doubled from 2017 to 2022—with the biggest jump occurring during the COVID-19 years—when the freaks in charge were locking these young people out of school to “prevent the spread.”

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that PTSD jumped 4.1 percent in five years, increasing from 3.4 percent of students to 7.5 percent in the 2021-2022 school year.

The researchers said the study showcased the challenges that many college students face and the need “for targeted, trauma-informed prevention and intervention strategies by mental health professionals and policymakers to support the affected student population,” The New York Times reported.

Yusen Zhai, the paper’s lead author, called the magnitude of the rise “shocking.”

The paper said PTSD impacts about 5 percent of the U.S. population any given year.

Stephen P. Hinshaw, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, told the paper that the COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing mandates could have resulted in college students feeling emotionally drained.

“Midway through this study, there may have been legitimately more trauma and death,” he said. “With the general mental health deterioration, is it harder to cope with traumatic stressors if you do get exposed to them?”

The research was published on JAMA Network…