Suffering in Silence: masculinity and mental health
An anonymous firsthand account of the stigma associated with mental health disorders and masculinity.
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Anonymous Writer
TW: “I hit a wall”: Mental health and temporary withdrawal
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: “Campus is the biggest trigger”: PTSD and university
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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Changing your mind: Should we define ourselves?
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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Student Mental Health: What’s it like being treated for a personality disorder?
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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Sports uncensored: Baring all for charity
“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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Student Focus: The lasting effects of spiking
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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Sitting on the sidelines
A Warwick student shares their personal struggle with having a sibling suffering from mental health issues There have been many articles written on what it is like to experience depression and anxiety as a student, which is wonderful and will hopefully help combat the stigma surrounding mental illness. However, I...
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Confessions of a teenage virgin
One anonymous writer shares their experience of being a virgin at university...
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Cultural Collision
Another anonymous writer gives us an insight into the ups and downs of interracial dating
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Setting us free: Cutting University grants harms the most vulnerable
When I came to University I was full of hope. This was was something I’d worked for for years, something which I had the capacity to do. I was a poor student, below the lowest wage line, at one of the best universities in the country. I’d smashed more statistics than I...
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Testimonials of racism on campus: It affects us all
Testimonials of experiences of racism on campus. It not only disrespectful to people of colour, but to everyone who has stood up against discrimination.
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Undefined defined
How can you define as undefined? I think that’s the most common question I get when I explain what the U in LGBTUA+ means.
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