There\nare several concerns that arise while preparing to live with a roommate in\ncollege:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What if they get on my nerves? What\nif I get on their nerves? Who will bring a coffeemaker? Do I even want to share\nmy coffeemaker? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is common for college students to\nbe anxious about how the person they are going to live with could positively or\nnegatively affect their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is less common, however, for\ncollege students to be concerned about the state of their roommates\u2019 mental\nhealth. Amid making new friends, dealing with difficult professors and the\noverall chaos that is college, who has time to make sure their roommate is\ngoing to class? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the National Institute\nof Mental Health, depression is the most common health issue faced by college\nstudents. The likelihood that one of your friends, romantic interests or\nroommates is suffering from depression is remarkably high. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cResearch shows that nearly 1 in 5\nuniversity students are affected with anxiety or depression,\u201d as stated by theconversation.com. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n So why does our roommates\u2019 mental\nhealth not top our list of concerns? <\/p>\n\n\n\n By agreeing to live with another\nperson, one is accepting the responsibility of paying attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The dangerous difference between a\nhigh school student and a college student experiencing depression is that the\ncollege student is alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMany students also deal with loneliness \u2013 in fact\nover 62 percent of college students in a 2017 survey by the American College\nHealth Association (ACHA) said they felt \u2018very lonely\u2019 within the last 12\nmonths. It\u2019s also normal to feel a sense of loss and mourn childhood. Even\nthough many students go home for holidays and summer break, it takes a while to\nreconcile the fact that you\u2019re now an adult,\u201d says affordablecollegesonline.org<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A high school student struggling with depression is\nmore likely to have a support system. They can rely on their parents, siblings\nand school faculty to recognize their symptoms. People will notice if something\nis amiss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A college student does not have this\ndegree of visibility. Their battle can go unnoticed for a very long time. Their\nbedroom may grow messier, their homework unattended, and their laundry unwashed\nwithout a single person realizing theses changes in behavior. The most\nattentive family members can only notice so much via Facetime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, it is your\nresponsibility, as a roommate, to pay attention to yours. You may unknowingly\nbe the only person who has the opportunity to recognize that they need help. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are several concerns that arise while preparing to live with a roommate in college: What if they get on my nerves? What if… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,35,32,34],"ppma_author":[167],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-college","tag-depression","tag-mental-health","tag-roommates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":167,"user_id":15,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sprinkles-kelby","display_name":"Kelby Sprinkles","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/589b2a7f865123bf180131ac912a679b.jpg?ver=1778637593","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}