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by sudosysgen 1406 days ago
It's statistically overrepresented in PhD students. Something like 40% fit the criteria for severe depression or severe anxiety.
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> Something like 40% fit the criteria for severe depression or severe anxiety.

Psychological (indeed, medical) criteria are not necessarily all they're cracked up to be.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=3303

That's still higher than the general population.
That would indicate either a problem in the population under discussion, or a problem with the diagnostic criteria.