The panic around social media use today is like the panic around Grand Theft Auto in the noughties, video-nasties in the eighties and the development of the printing press back before people knew what penicillin was. Stupid and petty, silly and unfounded, peddled by the kind of people who can’t handle change. It would all […]
Depression
Google’s PHQ-9 Tests – combating increasing rates of mental health problems
As part of an initiative which sees the tech giant partnered with the USA’s National Alliance on Mental Illness, Google mobile searches for the terms “depression” and “clinical depression” will now present US users with the option to take a short, self-administered depression test. According to the Alliance, whilst one in five Americans are likely […]
The Pill: Sexual Liberator or Limitator?
When the birth control pill was introduced in the 1960s, it sparked a revolution: women could take charge of their own sexual freedom. Now, women around the world are finding alternatives to the Pill after recognition of its effects on psychological health. Despite the six decades that pill has been omnipresent, 99% effective and not […]
Disorientation, depression and danger: retirement in sport
“I’m 35 and I still don’t know who I am. I don’t know who I am as a person.” Such candid remarks are likely to painfully resonate with many. The name Jason Brown is rarely recognised, but he enjoyed a relatively successful goalkeeping career, representing Wales and a string of football league clubs. A traditional […]
Words Matter: Talking about mental health
“W ith the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the forefront of the Heads Together campaign and the recent popularity of the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, dialogues surrounding mental health have been on the incline. The topic is on our minds, yet there remains a legion of misconceptions surrounding mental health, adding to the […]
Mental Health Day
A coording to an NUS survey in March, 78% of students have experienced mental health issues in the last year. A third said that they had had suicidal thoughts, with this figure rising to 55% among LGBT respondents. Mental health issues have been a growing problem over the last five years, with financial worries leading […]
Study drugs debunked
Cognitive enhancement is something that many of us would have thought about. Sat at the desk staring at a blank word document – wouldn’t it be great to have those assignments done better and quicker! In this endeavour some resort to caffeine, while others prefer exercise, meditation, or all three. In the meantime, some try […]
Do you even lift? Meditation as a mental workout!
As Dr. Hedy Kober of Yale University so eloquently put it, meditation does ‘to [one’s] mind what going to the gym does to [one’s] body- it [makes] it both stronger and more flexible’. If you’re currently missing out on mind day, then perhaps this article will convince you to hit the meditation cushion or yoga mat […]
Exeter academics make world’s best list
Six academics from the University of Exeter have earned a place on a prestigious list of the world’s most influential minds, which was published earlier this week. Inclusion on the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list, which spans natural, biomedical and social sciences, represents a researcher’s ranking within the global top 1 per cent. Three […]
Channel 4 documentary protagonist to give mental health talk
Protagonist of acclaimed Channel 4 documentary ‘Stranger on a Bridge’, Jonny Benjamin, will give a talk tomorrow evening on male mental health. Benjamin will join students and members of the public in the Alumni Auditorium at 6.30pm to share the inspirational story of his global search to find the stranger who talked him out of […]