I spent most of my adolescence dipping into the puddle that was therapy in the Caribbean. I got to feel special, I got to be enigmatic. I was told I was simply just bright for my age, as though depression was the punishment for reading above my grade level. I was told I had mood swings, that I should be kinder to myself, that I … Continue reading Invisible Illnesses VI: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
The End It is finally over. Seven days and nights of ‘The Famous Freshers Week’ have come to an end. The reality of having to do a degree settles on to your shoulders. The first few weeks after freshers can pose very difficult challenges to our mental health. Being aware of what those are and how to combat them would have made such a difference … Continue reading Battling The Post Freshers Slump
by Hannah Marie Stait In 2013 a non-profit project was started, something that once a year would bring people together to start the discussion of mental health by drawing a simple mark of punctuation on our skin. A semicolon. The meaning behind the semicolon however is a lot more important than it seems in that throughout the history of Literature an author would use … Continue reading Why Project Semicolon is Still Important
