Your mind begins racing. Your heart beats so fast as if it is coming out of your chest. Your education manipulated its way into gripping and crushing your mental health. Your GPA just dropped from a 4.0 to a 2.5. The stress kicks in and the clock seems to be moving faster than the sixty seconds allowed in a minute. Soon you begin to develop signs of anxiety, following it, depression. Lack of quality sleep leads to significant impacts on your health and mentally drains you of being capable of achieving well-maintained academic scores. But no one focuses on mental health anyways. Although counselors and other officials ignore the mental health epidemic among youth attending college, the college community should be aware of the mental instability of undergraduates, which decreases work productivity, because research shows that chronic stress, sleep deprivation, anxiety, and depression is most common among college students.
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“Other research suggests that nighttime sleep disturbances, defined as trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early, are associated with both increased anxiety and depression” (Milojevich 2016). Frequent sleep disturbances known to be a leading cause of depression and chronic stress are found throughout university students in particular. “Findings from one study indicate that approximately 67% of adolescents with multiple sleep problems”(Milojevich 2016). When sleep quality is vile, students perform less efficiently in their academic endeavors. ”College students often have erratic sleep schedules, poor sleep hygiene, and correspondingly poor sleep quality, which might affect their performance” (Amin 2016). Likewise, Performance is key to balance education with a social life, which leads to disturbed sleep
“Other research suggests that nighttime sleep disturbances, defined as trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early, are associated with both increased anxiety and depression” (Milojevich 2016). Frequent sleep disturbances known to be a leading cause of depression and chronic stress are found throughout university students in particular. “Findings from one study indicate that approximately 67% of adolescents with multiple sleep problems”(Milojevich 2016). When sleep quality is vile, students perform less efficiently in their academic endeavors. ”College students often have erratic sleep schedules, poor sleep hygiene, and correspondingly poor sleep quality, which might affect their performance” (Amin 2016). Likewise, Performance is key to balance education with a social life, which leads to disturbed sleep