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A group of college students sits in a sun-drenched room, giggling over a card game. In a courtyard, others play a makeshift game of volleyball without a net. These scenes, typical of any university campus, are taking place at an inpatient psychiatric unit specifically designed for students struggling with mental health issues.

It is the focus of a new HBO documentary, “One South,” which premieres Tuesday. Filmmakers Alexandra Shiva and Lindsey Megrue spent eight weeks inside the unit at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, part of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, speaking with patients, psychologists and other staff members to examine the mental health crisis among young adults. One young man talks about how he went to the George Washington Bridge for the first time and stood there for two hours while he contemplated jumping.



A young woman tells her psychologist she overdosed on pills not to kill herself, but to get an apology from her father after an argument. An international student, despondent her grades have dropped, is in a spiral of anxiety and shame after being reminded by her mother how her actions could upset the family. A new HBO documentary focuses on a psychiatric unit for college students at Zucker Hillside Hospital, which is part of Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

The number of young adults struggling with mental health issues has grown significantly in recent years. “I think explaining the theme of journeys to health and highlighting how there is .

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