Hidden Struggles
This is the mental health condition most likely to be hidden behind good grades and a "put together" appearance.
High Functioning Depression (Dysthymia)
This term describes the internal shame or embarrassment associated with experiencing mental health struggles.
Stigma
This percentage of students report that mental health negatively affects their academic performance.
70%
This widely used stimulant helps many students stay awake but can increase anxiety and disrupt sleep cycles.
Caffeine
NDSU’s on‑campus clinic located in the Wallman Wellness Center offers both primary care and these types of services to support student wellness.
Counseling Services
This group is statistically more likely to drop out of college due to mental health challenges.
First Generation Students
This identity-based factor can prevent students of color from seeking therapy, due to fears of being misunderstood.
Lack of representation of counselors
This is the average number of weeks it takes for a student to access ongoing counseling services on many college campuses during peak times.
3 to 6 weeks
This common social behavior is often used to mask emotional distress but can harm mental health over time.
Binge drinking
This free self-guided mental health app is available to all the NDSU community via their NDSU email.
WellTrack
This eating disorder has the highest mortality rate among all mental illnesses but is often misunderstood.
Anorexia nervosa
Nationally, Black students are more likely than White students to face this outcome during a mental health crisis response.
Campus Security or Police Involvement
Up to this percentage of students meet the criteria for at least one diagnosable mental health condition, yet many go undiagnosed.
60%
This term describes joking about one’s own mental health struggles to avoid serious conversations.
Trauma dumping or self-deprecating jokes
In addition to counselors, these people on campus are trained through the “NDSU Cares” program or Mental Health First Aid - help identify peers struggling with mental health.
Faculty, staff, and certain student staff
Symptoms of this condition often get mistaken for “mood swings” but can seriously disrupt functioning if untreated.
Bipolar disorder
International students may avoid mental health services because of this dual stigma - cultural and institutional.
Academic consequences and travel visa consequences.
U.S. immigration law's "inadmissibility" provisions impose barriers to entry for persons with certain kinds of mental illness.
This percentage of students have felt so depressed at least once in the past year that normal daily activities were hard to complete.
40-45%
This addictive substance, often marketed as a stress-relief, has rapidly increased in popularity on college campuses.
Vapes/Vaping
NDSU partners with this 24/7 crisis line, which also handles after-hours student calls via 211 or Fargo’s hotline.
FirstLink
Students often confuse this syndrome with regular tiredness, despite its severe emotional and physical toll.
Burnout (chronic stress)
This community faces higher rates of mental health challenges yet often receives less support on campus.
LGBT+ students
Approximately this percentage of students with mental health symptoms never use campus counseling services.
60%
Excluding marijuana, approximately this fraction of college students report using other illegal drugs at least once during their time in college.
1 in 10
As well as individual and group therapy and psychiatric services, what two other services does the Counseling Center provide?
Phototherapy for seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
ADHD Assessments