‘No One Can Really Get the Help They Need’: BYU Students Are Questioning Wait Times at Their Campus Counseling Center After a Public Suicide

When Jacob Payne called the counseling center at Brigham Young University (UT) last year, he was told it would be eight weeks before the next available appointment. It was his first semester, the middle of October, and he needed help. He’d been feeling “really down,” he said, and he didn’t know where else to go. So he waited. “During that time, things kept getting worse and worse,” he said.