It's exam time in the country's colleges and educational institutions. The street scene is a mix of happy students with summer and pressed young people who still have exams ahead.

And the students are under pressure today. More than they were in the past. You know this if you yourself are a student or have someone in the family. But you also get the same message if you talk to professionals who have the problems in the life. Eg. we can talk with student minister Nicolai Halvorsen, University of Copenhagen. He has worked with students for 15 years and receive inquiries from students with mental health problems 3-4 times a week - more often in the exam periods.

"The problems also existed 15 years ago, but they have become much more widespread today. The students are pressured more in their student life and study environment and the expectations that they have to be fast, skilled and have high marks. It is both the outside world and their own expectations, pushing them. There is no room for error. " Says Halvorsen University newspaper .

Today there is a much greater focus on karakterræs and so-called self-realization. The young people want more and will have top marks. Therefore they have more pressure on themselves and each other than they did just 10 years ago.

We also live in a time where you start learning all the way down to 0. class and in school work with learning goals and national tests. We must learn from the time we are very young and we shall be measured on what we can. It is the trend and not all children and young people who can endure the supplied pressure.

The trend is the same throughout the country

It is not only in the capital that the students get stress and depression. Psychologist Karen Duelund from Aarhus can report the same increase of pressed adolescents in her practice in the Aarhus area .

Student Counselling Service has branches in all the country's universities - Copenhagen, Roskilde, Odense, Esbjerg, Aalborg, Aarhus, DTU and Kolding - and offering free assistance both in the form of individual sessions and group therapy, has made statistics in the area.

In 2014, traded 31.5% of inquiries to the Student Advising on stress, which is equivalent to four new students approached with stress related problems every day.

That same year, spoke counseling 5,500 inquiries from pressed students. That's 15 a day. And an increase of 73% since 2000.

Student priest concludes:

"I feel sometimes that students respond inappropriately to the situation they are in. They have too much work, but work even harder to solve the problem. It's a bad strategy if you are stressed. Young people may find it difficult to understand that it can help to do nothing. Most would like to act and have difficulty in the loss of control that is that you can not work their way out of the situation. Something one that we can do in such a situation is to seek help. "