Student debt does not equal mental illness

By Josh Dehaas. Financial stress isn’t a mental illness, it’s a fact of life—and it masks the bigger issue at play. At the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Federation of Students, they want a review of mental health services on campuses and point to a common problem. “At Dalhousie University, for example,” says CFS-NS chairperson Anna Dubinski, “it’s quite easy to get a preliminary meeting with a counsellor, but it takes weeks or sometimes months before you get regular counselling. We think that’s not right.”
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