When to Get Professional Help
Certain feelings and behaviors signs indicating the need for prompt professional help. Important warning signs are:
- Inability to sleep.
- Feeling down, depressed, hopeless, or helpless most of the time.
- Difficulty concentrating to the extent that it interferes with your studies, work, or home life.
- Using smoking, overeating, drugs, or alcohol to cope with difficult emotions.
- Negative or self-destructive thoughts or fears that you can't control.
- Thoughts of death or suicide.
If you feel that your resilience is crumbling, you should seek help without delay. And if you are unsure about what to do or where to seek help, you should contact the staff in Student Services, since they can connect you with appropriate professional help.