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Features, Invisible Illnesses

Invisible Illnesses VII: Living with an Undiagnosed Autoimmune Disease

By Ella Lloyd Illustration by Amelia Field *TW ÔÇô Discussions of autoimmune diseases and undiagnosable illnesses* When I was 11, I caught glandular fever. I was off school for nearly 3 weeks and lost a lot of weight. IÔÇÖve never quite been right since. From around 15, I developed a host of unexplained symptoms- joint pain, excessive fatigue, chest pains, consistent anaemia, and weird blotchy … Continue reading Invisible Illnesses VII: Living with an Undiagnosed Autoimmune Disease

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Invisible Illnesses VI: My Experience with Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviour

By Katie Waits *TW ÔÇô Discussions of Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours (BFRBs), dermatillomania, and trichotillomania* ÔÇ£Can you all please turn your cameras on?ÔÇØ  ThatÔÇÖs such a familiar request nowadays. Some days, IÔÇÖll be happy to switch my camera on in a seminar. Other times, I dread those words. It usually means an hour of fidgeting, sitting at an awkward distance from the camera, constantly tilting and … Continue reading Invisible Illnesses VI: My Experience with Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviour

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Why Project Semicolon is Still Important

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

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Food

Interview: Not Plant Based

By Ellie Philpotts and Georgia OÔÇÖBrien The shorter version of this is in the current and final print issue of Quench, also at┬áhttps://issuu.com/gairrhydd/docs/quench_163 (Pg 34-35) These days, you can barely open anything ÔÇô whether the Instagram app, a celeb magazine, or even your kitchen cupboard, without embarking on a stare-off with a health product of some kind. Of course, glossy publications have never known a … Continue reading Interview: Not Plant Based

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