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Students during the pandemic faced extreme feelings of boredom, depression, and anxiety, as well as other mental health issues due to the significant changes it had brought to their lives and routines. Many never had to experience extreme isolation and a possibly deadly pandemic before, leading them to cope with these feelings by themselves, and how they see fit, sometimes in harmful ways. Students who had abused drugs or alcohol, or committed suicide during the pandemic also may not have known how to ask for help while battling this pain or felt guilty or ashamed of their feelings, leading them to escape by using these harmful activities or taking their own lives to rid themselves of the profound feelings and changes COVID-19 had brought upon them.

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