The Urgent Problems in the Sphere of Student's Mental Health: Challenge of COVID-19 Pandemic

The research featured the urgent issues of students’ mental health triggered by COVID-19 pandemic. pandemic has become frustrating and degrading in relation to a number needs that young people regard as significant. It violated usual behavioral patterns self-actualization self-realization. lockdown distance learning put an unexpected burden on personal resources students, leading risk hypochondrial response triggering various forms maladaptive addictive behavior. These violations worsened emotional background, affected motivational sphere, limited ability self-control self-organization, thus creating prerequisites for learned helplessness behavior, which are one most destructive responses stress. authors believe students need special program psychological support aimed at solving caused