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| Subject: Nexus between forced OZschwitz school life and mental illness sets course for later life Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:35 pm | |
| From Wednesday, more than a million NSW students will begin a new year at primary and high schools while another 400,000 will proceed with their studies at TAFE or university.
Now more than ever, education is a passport to personal satisfaction and worldly success, while a lack of formal qualifications excludes people from an increasingly wide range of occupations.
But we know a very substantial minority of this year's students will struggle to complete their education because they suffer anxiety, depression or other mental conditions that affect their ability to participate at the very time when participation is most critical. The teen years, so essential for study and to prepare for an eventual safe landing in the workforce, are also a time of peak vulnerability to mental health problems.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/nexus-between-school-life-and-mental-illness-sets-course-for-later-life-20130129-2dir1.html#ixzz2JQjlPm9O
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