Dangerous argument: claims students find appeal in mental health diagnoses. They're not "depressed" but simply lonely & misattributing their feelings as mental illness.

To counter: In June, the CDC found 1 in 4 college-aged people complemented suicide. https://unherd.com/2020/09/there-is-no-student-mental-health-crisis/

These types of claims, that students do not understand their own feelings and mental-bodily experience, is gaslighting right? And that is contributing to the increase in the student mental health crisis

"There is some truth to the idea of mental illness as status symbol, as we can see from the fashion for including one’s psychiatric diagnoses in one’s Twitter bio...identifying as mentally ill can certainly boost one’s victim status."

STATUS IN MENTAL ILLNESS.

Is this how college admins think when students demand more mental health resources because the current resources are flooded with weeks of waiting and limited counselors?

I have been closely following the mental health research regarding the pandemic since March, and following studies on student mental health for over 2 years. Yet to find any evidence that we should not be fully concern about student well-being, more than ever.