MTV Student Suicide Campaign Edit
Half Of Us

mtvU, MTV’s 24- hour college network, in partnership with The Associated Press have unveiled on March 19 the results of a new poll examining the impact stress, mental health struggles, the Iraq war, slumping economy, campus security and other issues are having on today’s college students. According to the poll results, a distressing number of students say they’ve had suicidal thoughts and intentionally injured themselves. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have personally touched half of all college students, heaping more stress atop worries about academic performance and a looming recession.

The channel’s campaign Half of Us features musicians talking about how they have dealt with depression and have gotten help. Music stars such as Mary J. Blige, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz and Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan front the Half Of Us which aims to cut student suicide rates.

Wentz shared in his interview “I got in my car. I remember I was listening to Jeff Buckley doing Leonard Cohen’s (song) Hallelujah and sat there and took a bunch of (prescription drug) Adavan in a Best Buy (store) parking lot. And I called up my manager because I was, at that point, completely out of my head with Adavan. And I was talking to him and I was slurring my words, so he called my mom and my mom called me and she came and got me and we went to the hospital.

For all the interviews and more information visit the campaigns official site.