Dr Lou Farrer. Photo by Belinda Pratten.
The Internet is the latest battleground in the fight against the nation's looming crisis of mental disorders, writes SIMON COPLAND. Australia is facing a mental health crisis. Around one in five Australians suffer some form of mental disorder each year and mental disorders now account for 13 per cent of the total disease burden in Australia. Despite this, many people are still not getting the treatment they need. Lou Farrer from the Centre for Mental Health Research in the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment says that this is a problem she's determined to tackle. "I always wanted to be a medical doctor," Farrer says. "But I discovered from a young age that there was no way I could cut people open or work with disease.
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