Yale 2021 Applicants

exyalie15
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 07:28:46 +0000

@DryMango the antidepressant statistic is definitely wrong. 40-50% of Yale undergrads visit mental health at some point during their years at the university. This number includes students who turn up only for the intake appointment, and many of these students don’t come back for ongoing treatment with therapists and psychiatrists. Of the students who do return for ongoing treatment, most of this is therapeutic (including without a diagnosable mental illness), with a minority of students being prescribed medications (of which antidepressants are not the only category). I think the number would be closer to 5-15% on psychiatric mediations.

Anecdotally, I was on medication, and none of my close friends were.

Also, most of the psychiatrists I’ve interacted with would not prescribe antidepressants (let along long term) to people experiencing situational issues, which would include academic pressure and adjusting to a culture they found unhealthy. Antidepressants are more often used to treat organic depression, especially when recurrent. I would be surprised if many Yale psychiatrists doled out prescriptions to people having trouble with Yale’s culture unless there were other causes for the depression as well. As such, looking at the antidepressant rate might not be the best way to assess any institution’s impact on student welfare.