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Signs and Symptoms of Distress in Students

Your Observations

  • Social isolation, withdrawal, lethargy
  • Inability to focus on a specific topic in a conversation or activity
  • Disorganized thinking and speech, feelings that are inappropriate to the situation, lack of affect, or other evidence that student is “out of touch with reality”
  • Expression of feelings of persecution, strong mistrust of others
  • Violent outbursts
  • Signs of excessive alcohol or drug use
  • Expressions of general unhappiness over a period of several weeks
  • Frequent class absence or “disappearance” over extended periods
  • Gain or loss of significant amounts of weight
  • Abrupt change in manner, style, or personal hygiene
  • Increasing dependence on you (by making excessive appointments, hanging around your office or after class) or others

Student’s Symptoms

  • Marked anxiety, extreme restlessness, inability to concentrate or relax
  • Marked decrease or increase in appetite
  • Marked decrease or increase in sleep
  • Loss of interest in formerly pleasurable or meaningful activities, such as classes, social life, intimate relationships
  • Expression of irrational fears
  • Physical complaints without a medical cause, such as headache, stomach pains, etc.
  • Unusual ritualistic or repetitive behavior
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Suicidal thoughts, plans, threats
  • Overwhelming financial obligations

Student’s Background

  • History of emotional disturbances (e.g., depression, alcohol, drug abuse, eating disorder, anxiety, suicide attempts)
  • Traumatic family event(s) such as recent separation or divorce of parents, serious illness or death of family member, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse at home
  • Recent loss of an important person (either by death or by separation/break-up)
  • Recent loss of esteem
  • Previous period of poor functioning
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