According to the 2020 edition of China National Mental Health Development Report (20 19-2020) released on 20021,the problems of depression and anxiety of graduate students are more obvious. In this survey, 35.5% of graduate students have some degree of depression, and about 60% of graduate students have anxiety problems. Many surveys show that female graduate students have higher levels of depression and anxiety than male graduate students. Moreover, the depression and anxiety level of doctoral students is higher than that of master students. It can be seen that the depression and anxiety of graduate students have become a common problem. The higher the grade and the higher the educational level, the more serious the depression and anxiety problems are.

Reason one: academic pressure. Graduate students are faced with doing research every day, and whether there are research results should be concerned every day. In addition, graduation thesis is also a big difficulty. Postgraduate study is not like undergraduate study, so it is certainly no problem if you mainly follow the learning progress of large units. On the contrary, graduate students need to learn to study alone, find their own rhythm, find their own research direction, and work hard for it. Either bury yourself in the laboratory and do experiments repeatedly and read the literature; Either bury yourself in the vast sea of books and look for the direction of research from the literature. Either way, the postgraduate entrance examination will not be so easy.

Reason 2: Social pressure. Many times in the graduate stage, I am almost alone, or interacting with my classmates in the laboratory, and I can obviously feel that my social circle is shrinking. The people I contact every day haven't changed much, except that learning is learning, and I want to socialize and lack certain social opportunities. In addition, the relationship with the tutor is also a pain point for many graduate students. If the tutor is easy to get along with, that's fine. If the tutor is not easy to get along with, then maintaining the relationship with the tutor will become the most painful thing in these two or three years. After all, some tutors just treat students as free labor and let them become their own life assistants, not real ones? Graduate student? .

Reason three: employment pressure and life pressure. With the growth of personal age, the employment dilemma faced by graduate students is not easier than that faced by undergraduate students. Because not every graduate student is popular, students who graduate early and accumulate work experience seem to have a more competitive advantage in employment. Coupled with the gradual decline in the gold content of postgraduate education, the employment environment seems to be not optimistic. How to balance study, internship and employment? How to solve the pressure of marriage and love purchase with age? It is an inevitable problem at this stage.