According to a 2013 survey conducted by the American College Health Association, 84.3 percent of students feel confused by what they do at college. 60.5 percent of the 100,000 students polled indicated that they were very depressed, while 57 percent indicated that they were very lonely. 51.3 percent of parents reported overwhelming fear, and eight percent of those polled said they had attempted suicide at some point in their lives (Daly and Bengali 3). The findings highlight the fact that students are becoming overwhelmingly stressed, with many blaming the crushing workload as the source of the issue. Usually, students find themselves in a competitive environment, where there is the interplay of both internal and external facts that guide the decision that they make. The individual objectives of reciprocating previous success in high school or other competitive setting mean that student is highly likely to risk to ensure that their goal is achieved. Such personal stands, combined with external threats and pushes by other stakeholders add to the workload that students have, and overall, college students feel the weight of the work (University Gazette). The need to reduce the school coursework based on the revelation of the rate at which college students are diagnosed with depression and related conditions as a result of the heavy workload from schools and added pressure from parents means that there is a likelihood the victims contemplate suicide.
One of the challenges that students have to face is the increasing pressure from parents with helicopter parenting, making children feel the extreme external influence on personal decisions. The trend has become so prone that some of the students have been overheard, stating that the parents know what is best for the child. The case is, in fact, extreme in particular situations so that some parents even threaten to disown and disengage themselves if their wishes are not met and the child pursues the preferred program. For example, one of the student respondents argued that a father had threatened that if the kid did not major in economics, he would divorce her mother. The student had no choice but to save their family and took the tough program that was apparently beyond her abilities. Instead of taking four years which is the typical time, the student ended up spending seven years. The father never stopped at that, because when the daughter was pursuing...
