Part of me would like to feel for the student who may have a genuine illness, but the other part of me that has a doctorate knows that it was very, very hard and I totally lost it in my second year and went off around the US for 6 weeks to get my head clear.
The bottom line is that a doctorate is not an easy thing to get, it's stressful and some people probably can't take the stress.
The bottom line is that a doctorate is not an easy thing to get, it's stressful and some people probably can't take the stress.