In a student survey at MIT last spring, 74 percent of respondents reported having had a mental problem that interfered with their daily lives, though only 28 percent reported having used the mental health resources the institute provided. Overall, 11 percent of students use the mental health resources at MIT, an increase from 7 percent a few years ago.
The report quoted one student who wrote that “asking for help is not easy for the typical MIT student.”
—Staff writer Andrew J. Miller can be reached at amiller@fas.harvard.edu.
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