Title: Killer loans — college debt triggers depression and suicide | Salon.com
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Killer loans — college debt triggers depression and suicide
All debts are burdensome. Why is it that student loans, in particular, give people so much emotional distress?
By Victoria Wang
Why student loans are especially toxic
Victoria Wang

Content: The payments just… keep going up and up and up and up… until you die,” one replies. These young people are not alone — not by a long shot. According to a recent survey of current and former students between 20 and 39 years of age, 70 percent of them were $100K to $500K in debt. Because of this burden,
One in 11 deaths by suicide among young professionals was at least partly due to student loans; One in 15 has contemplated suicide; Over half (53 percent) have experienced depression; Nine in 10 experienced significant anxiety. Advertisement: Advertisement
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“Debt has a clear impact on borrowers’ mental health,” said Melanie Lockert of Student Loan Planner, the financial coaching company that did the survey. “ It is something we should be talking about.”