Another Surprise: Harvard Students Experience Mental Illness at Double the Rate of the Normal Adult Population

Does communism cause mental illness, or are the mentally ill just unnaturally attracted to an ideology that says they can remake the world in their image if they just want it enough?

Both are in play but that second part is probably the bigger piece of it.

Harvard Students Are Twice as Mentally Ill as the General Population Amid Ivy Psychological Meltdown Young and left-wing are part of 'emerging mental health political identity'

The Ivy League is having a mental health crisis.

"Forty-seven percent of surveyed seniors indicated that they experienced mental illness at some point in their time at Harvard, and 13 percent said they were unsure," according to a survey of the Class of 2026 conducted by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. That's more than double the rate of the general adult U.S. population, which the federal government's National Institute of Mental Health estimates at 23.1 percent, noting that "Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe."

At Princeton, a senior survey conducted by the Princetonian student newspaper found 60.1 percent had mental health counseling or therapy during college, with 36.3 percent getting help from the university's counseling and psychological services and 23.8 percent finding outside assistance. That's also much higher than the overall population; NPR reported last year on a study that found "the number of American adults getting outpatient talk therapy grew from 6.5% to 8.5%."

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Potential causes of the trends are multifarious. As with mild autism and learning disabilities of the sort that generate eligibility for untimed standardized tests, it's unclear how much of the increase is in incidence and how much is in identification--that is, are today's students really more depressed, anxious, or panicked than previous generations, or are they and the grownups around them simply more likely to diagnose and label their maladies as mental illness? It could be that both dynamics are operating.

The article notes that leftwingers are simply more insane than the normal population, and, I would add, Harvard discriminates in favor of the factors for mental illness.

"Those more likely to categorize as having a mental illness are more likely to have a college degree; be a Democrat, liberal, and White; and have slightly lower family income," Van De Hey writes.

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The fact that the student newspaper surveys are even asking questions about the issue is a sign of its salience. The Crimson senior survey also found, "Seniors reported continued support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement as Israel's war in Gaza continues into its third year and after a sharp increase in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. More than 40 percent of respondents view the movement favorably, increasing 5 percentage points from last year's graduating class." Israel reached a ceasefire in Gaza in October 2025, so the contention that "Israel's war in Gaza continues into its third year" is itself a kind of delusion, and the support for BDS--a movement to wipe Israel off the map--from the seniors is evidence that Harvard is failing to educate the students. The survey found 65.6 percent of Harvard students identifying as either "progressive" or "very progressive."

Hello! I am still getting up to speed. I had a horrible night of sleep.

Hung out with the main-man crow this morning, NBD. He saw me eating and flapped over just in case.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

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