CN: discussion of suicide and mental illness UNIVERSITIES are in a mortality crisis. Only last year, the Office of National Statistics recorded 95 university suicides: the first time university suicide rates have been revealed publicly. In an age where mental health is being discussed more on social media, and where the government has pledged to […]
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Review: 13 Reasons Why
13 Reasons Why has taken the world by storm, dubbed by some as ‘The Best Netflix Show in Years’. I read the book when I was about 14, and I remember loving it, so the news of its adaptation was an exciting prospect, and it didn’t disappoint. The story follows Clay Jensen, receiving a set of […]
Male rape victim shares his story (trigger warning for rape and suicide)
E veryone has secrets, secrets from their friends, secrets from their parents, maybe even secrets from their other-half. I’m a person who doesn’t have many secrets, I wear my heart on my sleeve and share with everyone. I have one big secret though, at the age of 13 I became a male rape victim. My secret […]
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 […]
The mind can’t ‘man up’
It’s a phrase you probably heard last weekend. Painful tackle? Don’t want to down it? Film scene got you emotional? The answer is simple. Just two words to get you back on your feet, suck it up and continue without a word: “man up.” A seemingly harmless phrase, yet for some, the expression’s etymology built […]