University Mental Health Harvard University is hard. It's supposed to be. But for some students, it's too hard. Away from home for the first time they face the same challenges as other college students, but have the added pressure of attending the nation's most prestigious, high-profile and high pressure university.
Expectations are sky-high, and the workload is tremendous.
With the demands of term papers, exams and social stresses some Harvard students, on average one a year, succumb to the pressure by commiting suicide. This week, as Harvard students busy themselves with midterms, the university is offering some help for students who may be feeling especially stressed out. We speak to Richard Kadison, Chief of the Mental Health Services at Harvard's Health Services. Female college students don't fit the profile of most suicides. Typically, those who commit suicide are white men using guns.