With midterm season underway, many Emory students find themselves camped out in Woodruff Library, trying to cram half a semester’s worth of chemistry into their brains overnight. According to science or whatever, spending 12 hours at a time in a windowless basement isn’t great for your mental health, and many students have begun to exhibit signs of depression.
With CAPS busy taking the entire semester to get back to students, Emory’s Office of Health Promotion is helping to address this issue and has come up with a creative way to combat the problem.
OHP has replaced the baskets of condoms in all Libraries and other locations around campus with dispensers of the common anti-depression and anti-anxiety pill, Prozac. Since implementing this solution, there has been a reported 42% decrease in the number of students showing symptoms of depression.
“There was some concern during the initial planning phases that removing the condoms would lead to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases, but then someone reminded us that this is Emory,” explained the OHP director. “Very few students were having sex in the first place, and with all the time students are spending in the stacks, they barely have time to eat or shower, much less get it on.”
Many students have been praising the effort for the positive impact that it has had on their mental health. We interviewed junior Hugh Jass to see his thoughts on the change.
“Before I couldn’t get it up because I was too depressed. Now the only thing stopping me is my early onset ED!”
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