Psychology Update — Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection

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TITLE Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection DESCRIPTION This article discusses two students at an ivy league school, whose distorted perceptions of themselves as failures, clashed with the high expectations placed upon them from their family life; theses students felt the “pressure of perfection.”   Though the students were bright, athletic, popular, they focused… Read more »