At 14, we all had expectations of our lives, our dreams and ambitions. My 14-year-old self’s vision would have been meticulously detailed, dotted with exceptional achievements and on a trajectory to profound success. What wouldn’t have been in my vision was a wheelchair. Like many wheelchair users, my life changed...
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Cogito ergo sum is probably the most famous philosophical phrase in the world. Perhaps though, had René Descartes been born 400 years later, he’d have coined the Latin translation for “I Snapchat, therefore I do”, because you’d be hard pressed to find someone who misses an opportunity to show off...
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New to the world of sex toys? Don't worry, here's everything you need to know.
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A motion submitted to the recent All Student Meeting proposed to mandate the SU to provide low cost drug testing kits, as well as supplying educational materials surrounding drugs. After another record year for drugs deaths in the UK, us students could now stand to make a small step in...
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An anonymous writer talks about their experience of admitting that they were suffering from depression
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This year I went on my year abroad to Canada, which was an experience that I will never forget. I travelled across North America and saw many amazing places. The main reason I chose to spend a year in Canada was because of how safe I heard it was and...
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An anonymous firsthand account of the stigma associated with mental health disorders and masculinity.
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TW: mental illness, depression. Poor mental health is something I’ve struggled with for many years. At the end of my second-year at Warwick, though, I was in the best place emotionally that I had been for a long time. I was in a happy relationship, was at a healthy weight...
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TW: sexual violence, suicide, mental illness. When campus is the biggest trigger for your mental illness, it makes studying almost impossible. I suffer with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and this comes with numerous difficulties which are tough to cope with at the best of times and even harder to come...
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Compared to school, family life and work, life at university is a fairly sexualized place. For most people it is the time after moving out of your parents’ house, and before getting married, where you can be free to explore without prying eyes. If you are not heterosexual this means...
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I live with a mental illness which requires me to take a number of prescribed psychiatric medications including antipsychotics and antidepressants. My diagnosis is borderline personality disorder and I also have symptoms of psychosis/underlying which is why I take the antipsychotics. I was seen at an NHS specialist unit every...
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“I’m disappointed in you.” Quite possibly the most earth-shatteringly awful words that you can hear from a parent. What could I have done to elicit such a response? Failed a module? Got pregnant? Taken drugs? No, I participated in my rowing team’s charity naked calendar. I am not ashamed of my...
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There was an overwhelming sense of disorientation and shame that I felt when I woke up in bed with someone who wasn’t my partner. Just before I went out that night, I was telling some friends how great things were going with my partner. A few hours later they were...
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