A team of Australian psychiatrists has identified what they believe is a new mental health condition in asylum seekers.
The researchers say they're seeing a unique combination of depression, psychoses and anxiety in asylum seekers, and say the cause has less to do with the trauma of fleeing from a home country and more to do with the lengthy process of obtaining asylum in Australia.
Psychiatrist Dr Suresh Sundram, from Melbourne University, told Radio Australia he has found many asylum seekers are suffering from a new form of mental illness.
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