Strains on students
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, November 5. More than 12,000 university students in Australia—one in 10—need psychiatric help or counselling for emotional problems, according to university authorities. Professor David Madison, professor of psychiatry at Sydney University, says that more students than ever seem to be suffering from problems and mental disorders. “I suspect this is because students are under greater pressures and stresses than they used to be, in spite of what is said about the freedom of universities.”
Up to 4 per cent might break down into psychiatric illness with acute depression, become schizophrenic or face deep sexual problems they could not cope with. Many suffered anxiety problems due to exam tensions, money shortage and the difficulty of choosing a career. University health counsellors say that students’ problems run the whole gamut of mental disorders. However, the incidence among university students is not as high as in the adult community, they reckon.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33066, 6 November 1972, Page 17
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