In today's society, it is very hard to find a job after graduating from college. Currently, today’s job market requires a very high degree of expertise and knowledge to be able to obtain a good, well-paying job. In fact, with this mindset, freshmen would usually pick a major with a strong workload and challenging classes. Some of these classes would not help them in their field of study and are basically, in my opinion, a waste of time and extra busy work to stress over. However, students will go through stress and anxiety to pass these difficult classes, so they will be able to graduate and have a successful job line up for them after college. Despite the successful results, it is not healthy for anyone's mental well-being to live under such intense stress and anxiety.
According to the American Institute of Stress (AIS), a study showed that five out of ten college students feel constant stress at all hours of the day. Students need to find a healthy way to control their stress and anxiety from these intense classes. If not dealt with properly, this can have a negative impact on students and will cause many students to give up and drop out altogether.
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A study done by the American psychology association (APA) shows that 25% of college students drop out of college due to stress and pressure from their classes.
As a college student myself, with a major, that is very science heavy. I understand that college feels like an exhausting rat race sometimes. My idea for a proposal would be, that colleges should allow students to have electives in their schedule to help them reduce their stress and anxiety. An extra elective class in between their heavy classes can be beneficial for the students. In fact, according to a recent article by the US national library of Medicine shows that enjoyable activities can be good for one’s mental health and well-being.
As a personal example, I use photography sometimes to help me handle the stress from classes and school. I am not a professional photographer, but I still enjoy the activity as a hobby. Most of the time whenever anyone hears the word photography, they mostly imagine very expensive camera equipment and sophisticated pictures. However, this misleading information can be further from the truth. Almost anyone can be a photographer. In fact, you can also use your smartphone to take pictures almost as nice, as if you were using an expensive camera.
Photography has always been one of my favorite hobbies. One of the reasons why I enjoy it is because it gives me a healthy way to deal with stress. When I take a picture with my camera, I can see the world in a whole new different light. When I go to new places, I would usually take pictures on my phone. I would take pictures of trees, flowers, and plants. When I look over these photos, I would zoom in to see all the tiny details of the flowers and plants. There are also other ways photography can be seen in. Sometimes people may see it as art. Other people might see it as entertainment, but for me, I see it as a form of therapy.
In fact, according to many mental health professionals, photography can be seen as another form of art therapy. Art therapy is a blend between art and therapy. The purpose of Art Therapy is to have a way to deal with stress and anxiety in the form of art. You do not need to be good at art to benefit from art therapy. All You need to do in art therapy is put in the work to see positive results.
All around the world, mental health professionals use art therapy on their patients who are dealing with difficult situations. According to a news story done by ABC4 Washington. A Vietnam war veteran used photography as a healthy outlet to deal with his PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Actually, photography has helped improved his life so much that he formed a photography club for other war veterans dealing with issues of their own.
As seen in the news story above. Photography can be seen as a form of therapy to help heal people. One of the reasons why many mental health professionals use photography as a form of therapy is because it is considered a personal recovery for some. It is easier for some people to express their emotions in pictures instead of communication.
There are many ways photography can be used as therapy. The first way is called therapeutic photography. Therapeutic photography is just you or a group of people outside in nature taking photos, in a similar way as the war veteran from Washington did for himself. The second way is called Phototherapy. Phototherapy uses personal pictures or albums of the person who is in therapy to help them express their emotions or as a way of communication. In Phototherapy, you can use any form of photography like videos for example.
Back to my original proposal, as seen from my hobby photography. An elective or hobby in between heavy classes can be very helpful to many college students dealing with stress and anxiety.
In conclusion, I believe that it will be very beneficial for colleges to give students the opportunity to have an extra elective in between their heavy classes. This act can be very helpful.
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