The Atlantic - Graduate School Can Have Terrible Effects on People's Mental Health

another article on the same topic.

Perhaps the issue is expectations:

Work-life balance? hahahaha

My son when to law school, so I used to follow the LS blogs, and every year, there were numerous posts from law students about who/why Big Law should pay starting grads $190k, many of which who have never even had a retail job in their lives, AND provide them with ‘regular hours’.

Academia, like law and medicine and many other professions, is just not a 9-5 job.