2015
DOI: 10.5430/ijh.v2n1p29
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Mental illness or mental distress; stigma and concealment in University students - a discussion paper

Abstract: This discussion paper addresses the issue of mental distress, sometimes mis-perceived or misinterpreted as mental illness. The focus is on positive psychology. Reflecting in part on a UK-based study with younger University students studying to health related degrees, nursing, midwifery and medicine (N = 12), many of the students were apparently suffering dis-stress with disordered eating at least in part being used as a coping mechanism. However notwithstanding that they were at the end of their first year stu… Show more

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