Suffering stoically

He described many students as "suffering stoically" from their mental difficulties, being either unaware of possible aid from their student health services or being too ashamed to seek it.

From a survey conducted on 374 fifth-year medical students at the Otago Medical School over four successive years, he found that nearly 25 per cent of them were suffering from psychiatric morbidity. which he termed an excessively high rate.

While this survev was conducted only in the medical faculty. Dr. Ironside said he had no doubt that n similar high incidence would be discovered among students in other faculties

This seems to be proved by the occasional incident which reaches newspapers, such as the mentally-ill Texas, student who massacred 11 people and wounded twice as many more.