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Stress levels for teaching staff

Apologies for any mistakes - on mobile. 

I’m a professor and I have been in university education for years & years in a humanities discipline. 

In the last few years, I’ve noticed a definite sea change in the unrealistic expectations of students, and their litigiousness has accelerated. I’m exhausted. I can’t keep up with their constant demands and neediness, and feel like unless I award them all 100%, tell them that they’re geniuses whilst also listening to their (often extremely upsetting) stories about how, for example, they were abused as children, and act as counsellor, they will complain about me. In fact, sometimes they do. 

My mental health is seriously deteriorating and there’s no staff support at my current place of work. I’m at the end of the line and really want to leave academia for good, except that I worked myself to the ground to get where I am. I feel like I can’t give up even though I know it’s making me ill. 

The short question after these meandering few paragraphs is how do you deal with the stress that comes from difficult student behaviour and expectation?
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I get the impression that some professors are overly invested in their work and students, And work them selves down to the bone and create unnecessary stress for themselves because of that, Bending over backwards to meet perceived requirements Rather than creating and enforcing boundaries as to how far they will go to meet Requests and needs.