In an increasingly pressurised, competitive and market-driven education system, this phenomenon can only become more acute: depression is virtually a built-in hazard. There are several solutions, none of which are mutually exclusive. There is a case for building some or all of them into education syllabuses themselves – since almost by definition, the more ambitious a course, the more prone to negative outcomes for a proportion of students who lack the means to deal with the inherent stresses.