The fraction of college students with genunine disabilities cannot have quadrupled in just a few years.
Yes, but the awareness that it is possible to get accommodation for depression and anxiety easily could have. I personally was being treated for depression during all of my years at college, but it never occurred to me that I could have gotten accommodations for it at school - those were for people who were blind or deaf, not "weaknesses" like mine. So if I spend a weekend unable to do anything but curl up into a ball of stress and didn't get my homework done, I took my F and tried to make up for it later. I had classmates who did the same and, when it became clear that they were going to fail their courses, "solved" it all by jumping out of the dorm tower. I can't help but think that accommodations are a better solution.
