Recent suicides at Yale College

Monarch24
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 07:19:22 +0000

Gosh, this is so hard to hear… just last week a close friend of mine committed suicide. We’re both high school seniors and she was going through the entire application process. In my opinion there is no worse feeling than losing someone to suicide, it’s the worst pain I’ve ever felt. So at this time I’d imagine that many Yale students right now are in a vulnerable place as well. I totally agree that mental illness should be more heavily researched and openly discussed, but I think that the time immediately following is too sensitive to have those conversations. I think that academic pressure has everything to do with the suicide of those Yale students and of my friend as well. In the case of my friend, I had only talked with her two nights before about college, and she revealed to me the amount of stress that she was feeling from the combination of college applications and schoolwork. I tried to comfort her, and looking back I know there was something more that I could have done

But this is a high school student, I can’t begin to imagine the pressure that someone would feel at a school like Yale, where even genius’ can be easily overshadowed by their peers.