  The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown natural life out of gear across the globe.
Strict measures are deployed to curb the spread of the virus that is causing
it, and the most effective of them have been social isolation. This has led to
wide-spread gloom and depression across society but more so among the young and
the elderly. There are currently more than 200 million college students in 186
countries worldwide, affected due to the pandemic. The mode of education has
changed suddenly, with the rapid adaptation of e-learning, whereby teaching is
undertaken remotely and on digital platforms. This study presents insights
gathered from social media posts that were posted by students and young adults
during the COVID times. Using statistical and NLP techniques, we analyzed the
behavioral issues reported by users themselves in their posts in
depression-related communities on Reddit. We present methodologies to
systematically analyze content using linguistic techniques to find out the
stress-inducing factors. Online education, losing jobs, isolation from friends,
and abusive families emerge as key stress factors.
