<p>Do they kick you out? I am a college freshman.</p>
<p>Your diagnosis will stay in the counseling center as long as you can manage your day-to-day life. </p>
<p>Please get the help you need!</p>
<p>Yeah, just get help. It’s a medical thing, so no one (not even your parents) will know, that ****'s private. </p>
<p>Get help seriously though. The counseling center is probably free.</p>
<p>They won’t kick you out unless you’re threatening to murder someone.</p>
<p>If you need mental help (and face it, a lot of college freshman do), then go get it. There’s no shame in it.</p>
<p>They don’t kick you out. It’s generally a private matter, and it’s very, very common at colleges.</p>
<p>They do reserve the right to send you to the hospital if you threaten to commit suicide though. If that happens, they’ll probably also encourage you or maybe force you to take a leave of absence.</p>
<p>kick you out? i’m pretty sure 75% of students get depression from time-to-time, lols.</p>
<p>Your college probably offers free psychological counseling for students. I know UCSD does.</p>
<p>…you can get full blown depression as a college freshman?</p>
<p>^Yep.</p>
<p>Honestly? They don’t do anything. At all. (experience).</p>
<p>They won’t do anything unless you make threats, if they did they’d lose about 50% or more of their student body. I know after 4 years of hell I’m finally going in within the next few days to try and get a script for anti-depressants because it’s gotten past the point that I can handle it on my own and gone into the level where it feels like it won’t improve, where if I don’t do something about it I’m gonna… yeah, the result wouldn’t be good. </p>
<p>Of course for me at least I’m hoping this will be a stop-gap measure, something to bring me up to my normal level of functioning until the **** that’s causing the problem is fixed and then I can ease off it again.</p>
<p>There are literally 0 negative consequences. Basically all schools have mental health counselors you can talk to. Some even have in house psychiatrists for prescribing meds, others don’t and can refer you to local docs. They won’t hospitalize you against your will, or force you to take meds, it is completely private.</p>
<p>hmmm… I guess I just don’t see much to be depressed about.</p>
<p>But yeah, talk to your school’s medical health center thing</p>
<p>^Much to be depressed about? School’s not always just about… you know, school, right dude?</p>
<p>There’s outside relationships, which while some can be teenaged angsty drama, others can be deep relationships, suddenly destroyed, which can be emotionally traumatizing.</p>
<p>Bullying, that’d be a big one, especially if it continues into college.</p>
<p>Family issues, this can tie into bullying, and financial straits.</p>
<p>Stress, some people don’t handle the stress of college very well, especially if it’s their first semester/year, that sudden change from the norm can be extremely stressful. Being away from home the first time, new responsibilities, new social scene, etc.</p>
<p>There are others I’m not thinking of but yeah… no offense but it’s kinda… short-sighted to think there isn’t a lot to be depressed about, entrance into college can be one of the most exciting, but also most stressful (and therefore depression-inducing) times of one’s life. There’s everything to be depressed about.</p>
<p>Not to mention that depression often has an actual physical cause of a chemical imbalance in the brain, which means anyone at any age can get it. I was diagnosed the first time around 14, for example. It’s not about having something to be depressed over. It’s a medical condition.</p>
<p>Try saying, “You have cancer? You’re too young to have cancer.” See how silly that sounds?</p>
<p>OP, do seek out help. Either in your school’s counseling center or with your doctor. There are things they can do to help you.</p>
<p>“hmmm… I guess I just don’t see much to be depressed about.”</p>
<p>Astounding.</p>
<p>“hmmm… I guess I just don’t see much to be depressed about.”</p>
<p>lol, are you joking? the first month of college was by far the lowest point in my life, & i’m sure i’m not alone.</p>
<p>It’s almost been pointed out already, but mental illnesses are a matter of choice as much as physical ones are. Depression can sometimes be caused by simply nothing. You guys are also forgetting co-morbid factors, such as PTSD (lots of people are college-age when they remember traumas from their earlier life), anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and just plain ol chemical imbalances. People don’t decide to become depressed any more than they decide to get breast cancer. Pretending that people choose depression as a reaction is the same as pretending people choose lymphoma as a reaction.</p>
<p>See, there’s something a lot of people don’t realize. Depression is a clinical disease. There’s a lot of theories that claim it to be almost completely biological, therefore the person and the person’s circumstances don’t always influence it.</p>
<p>Your life could be relatively completely perfect, and you could still get depression. In fact, if you already have a mental disorder, such as OCD, Bipolar, ADD/ADHD, Borderline, Tourette…, then your tendency to be sad and/or depressed increases exponentially.</p>
<p>Fullofpop made a very good point.</p>
<p>People should consider depression more like the disease it is, and less as something to be ashamed of. Like cancer or diabetes, you can’t control it.</p>
<p>OP, they can’t kick you out. If they do you can even sue them, it has already happened. And it is very probably that you will win. An anonymous student in CUNY was expelled after she tried to commit suicide, she then sued them, won, and got more than $3 million.</p>
<p>By the way, in 2010 approximately 41% of college students had depression and/or anxiety problems.</p>
<p>I mean depressed as is, well, clinically depressed. Yeah everyone gets stressed and yeah everyone has to deal with some bad stuff, but to let that get you “depressed” , idk.</p>
<p>But then again if you actually have a disease, chemical imbalance, etc., then you probably can’t help it and should seek some help.</p>
<p>But for the average, everyday person, I would say its a little much to get depressed over a lot of the stuff mentioned. (aside from some of the more serious stuff like the sudden death of a family member, etc.)</p>
<p>One of my friends was forced to take a leave of absence from his college after they discovered he had threatened to kill himself in high school. Apparently, they wanted him to go on a certain medication, and when he refused, they told him he needed to go. His case is certainly not the norm, however. Most universities will not be so heavy-handed.</p>