International College Students

Tom is an international student, studying abroad for the first time in his life. He, on his first day of college, could not communicate with his classmates and nor fully understand what the professor had said. He struggled every day to overcome the language barrier and other challenges in college. He is now suffering from mental health problems, such as depression and eating disorders. As we can see in this case, international college students, having more stresses than local college students, are likely to get depressed and suicidal. They are suffering not only from lack of fluency in English but also from difficult in adapting into new cultures. Some of these students have mental health problems such as depression, anxiety disorder and eating …show more content…
It is important to spend time with different students in college and to know new people and coping well with these new people. Not going out and using social media will decrease the social activity within college friends. Also, as international college students put much time in social media, students will result in having addiction in Social Media. According to Healthy Minds Network, a research group specializing in adolescent and young adults ' health, social media may lead decrease in happiness and confidence and increase in psychological distress. It may further result in internet addiction and dangerous activities, such as committing suicide. As students get to spend much time in social media and get addicted in social media, international college students will spend more time alone and become highly likely to turn their eyes to dangerous activities such as committing suicide and may suffer depression. They may think that they have no hope in the future and they may eventually lose all the confidence that they have (2). Instead of spending time in social media, international college students should take part in school social activities and try to meet different students from …show more content…
They could contact with close friends and their family to solve any struggles and overcome the difficulties that they have. International college students should eat and exercise regularly, have better social interaction, and increase skills in coping with real life challenges. They can also reduce the time used in social media to prevent from addiction and mental health problems. Students can prevent mental health problem; however, they need to develop coping skills to avoid these problems. Students have to work hard and have the will to overcome any obstacles, in which they have in college. If international students can use these precautions and overcome their difficulties, university can be a great place for not only the local students but also international