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Man I love

Presented by: your homeboy

Saba Samaan

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Are you stressed?

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Pressures/worries:

Grades

Work

Financial problems

Relationships

Friends

Family

Being in shape

You name it

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Four in 10 students say they endure stress often.

Nearly one in five say they feel it all or most of

the time. Majorities cite classic stress symptoms including

trouble concentrating, sleeping and findingmotivation.

Most say they have also been agitated, worried, tootired to work.

Many cite eating problems and say they have felt

lonely, depressed, like they are failures.

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One in five say they have felt too stressed to doschoolwork or be with friends. About the samenumber say things have been so bad in the past

three months that they have seriously considereddropping out of school.

Substantial numbers are even concerned aboutspring break, chiefly not having enough money or

being in good physical shape.

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Darker still, about one in six say they have friendswho in the past year have discussed committingsuicide, and about one in 10 say they have seriouslyconsidered it themselves. Friends have actually triedto end their lives in that time, one in 10 say.

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What does all this stresslead to?

Drug abuse

Prescription

Herbal remedies

Illegal substances

Etc.

Alcohol

Binge drinking

Violence

Eating disorders

Self-inflicting pain

Suicide

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From drinking alone

1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and24 die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries,including motor vehicle crashes

599,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24are unintentionally injured

696,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24

are assaulted by another student who has beendrinking

97,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 arevictims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape

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400,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24had unprotected sex and more than 100,000students between the ages of 18 and 24 reporthaving been too intoxicated to know if they

consented to having sex

About 25 percent of college students reportacademic consequences of their drinking includingmissing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams

or papers, and receiving lower grades overall

More than 150,000 students develop an alcohol-related health problem, and between 1.2 and 1.5percent of students indicate that they tried to commitsuicide within the past year due to drinking or drug

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3,360,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24drive under the influence of alcohol

About 11 percent of college student drinkers reportthat they have damaged property while under theinfluence of alcohol

More than 25 percent of administrators from schools

with relatively low drinking levels and over 50percent from schools with high drinking levels saytheir campuses have a "moderate" or "major"problem with alcohol-related property damage

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Amethyst initiative

Petition signed by college and university heads andadministrators to reduce the minimum legal drinkingage from 21 to 18

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Other Proposed solutions

Reduce the drinking age to 19 instead of 18 asproposed by the amethyst initiative

STOP PROCRASTINATING!!!

Seek counseling and other organizations andgroups

FIGHT CLUB?!?!

Just take a break once in a while to live, laugh, andenjoy life

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