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Deputy chief medical officer for mental health says level of distress in young people, happening worldwide, predates Covid
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The first national study of its kind in more than a decade has found almost half of all young women in Australia suffered an anxiety, depression or substance abuse disorder last financial year.
For males in the same age bracket (16 to 24), it was about one in three.
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