I’m afraid that what I’m going to post may be too depressing, but hey you asked for it!

The quote below is taken from ‘A Mental Makeover for the Graduate Student’ by Shannon Duvall, July/August 2008.  Available (free access) from:

http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/~hamzaoglu/students/gradstudent_mental_makeover.pdf

“The 2004 Berkeley Graduate Student Mental Health Survey indicates that almost half of graduate students at Berkeley report having emotional or stress-related problems that seriously
affect their well-being. Almost 10% have seriously considered
suicide, and approximately one in 200 students have attempted
suicide. It is essential that graduate students equip themselves
with the skills to handle the life changes of graduate school, yet there are few resources for gaining these skills.(11)”

WTF?!?  Is this for real?  Yikes….