Sarah Ketchen Lipson

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College mental health reverses course

Principal Investigator, Healthy Minds Network

College student depression rates climbed almost every year from 2007 to 2022 — a 15-year stretch that has now reversed. The 2024-2025 Healthy Minds Study, surveying 84,000 students at 135 universities, puts severe depression at 18% (from a 2022 peak of 23%), anxiety at 32% (from 37%), and suicidal ideation at 11% (from 15%).

Updated May 26

Notable Quotes

"This is still an urgent problem, and there's a lot of inequalities that persist." — Sarah Lipson, commenting on the 2025 findings

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"[Universities adopted] a public health approach to mental health rather than solely one-on-one counseling. This population-level strategy emerged during the pandemic and expanded afterward."

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