Over 10,000 Irish students have sought help from campus counselling services in the past year.
This is a 300 percent increase from the previous year.
UCD Welfare Officer, Clare O'Connor, thinks this rise in numbers may have something to do with young people opening up about mental illness.
"I think a lot of work has been done in the past few years about stigma reduction and people being more open and honest about their mental health issues, so I think people are a lot more comfortable in opening up and being able to go to a service or talk to someone about it."
As a result of the increased demand for student support, there has been a call for more funding.
University College Dublin is opening a new student advice centre this September.
The advice centre will deal with issues like accommodation, finance and academic issues. The hope is that this service will help to ease demand on the counselling service, which will be able to focus on issues of mental health.
UCD Welfare Officer Clare O'Connor hopes the new student advice centre will "decrease the waiting list for the counselling service because there's huge demand."
