College students' mental health impacted by the stress of the end of the year

"This time of year is particularly stressful," University of Maine Counseling Center Director, Angela Fileccia, said. Mental health in college students is getting worse, according to a Healthy Minds Study published last year in the Journal of Affective Disorders. A survey of more than 350,000 college students found more than 60 percent had at least one mental health problem during the 2020-2021 school year. That's an increase of nearly 50 percent from 2013.