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Trapped, doomed and unwelcome

17 August 2024

9:00 AM

17 August 2024

9:00 AM

Psychiatrist and former Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry has spent the last five years leading a ground-breaking study, just published in The Lancet, into the mental health of today’s youth. Depressingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, the report claims that mental health illness amongst young people globally is ‘the largest and most rapidly growing cause of disability and lost human potential and productivity across the lifespan’.

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