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I am a psychology undergraduate student who started this blog to share my knowledge and experience of mental health and Psychology.

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Mental Health and The Education System

Mental Health and The Education System Introduction: Ever wondered what it’s like for people with mental health issues to be students? Well, here I will give my personal experience of being a student with mental health issues. I will say that I can only speak for myself since everyone experiences things differently so I cannot speak for everyone who is in a similar situation. Disclaimer: I am not a trained mental health professional, so anything mentioned is from my experience. And if you do need urgent help, please reach out to someone you trust or to a medical professional. How mental health makes studying harder: For me some days can be really hard. Mental health issues can range in complexity, with me it can be a wild ride. I have a lot of memory issues, so I struggle to remember what has been taught in lessons. Luckily my tutors at college are very understanding and will go over things again and let me take voice recordings so that I can place them back to refresh my me...

Life On A Psych Ward: Not Like The Movies

Ever wondered what life is like on a Psych Ward? Disclaimer: This is from my experience alone, I cannot speak for everyone's experience as everyone has had a different experience. I have tried to keep it trigger free. I do apologise if anything discussed is triggering. Not Like the Movies make you believe: This is a very personal subject for me since it's still quite fresh in my memory, despite it being quite a few years since the last time I stepped foot in a psychiatric ward. Just to put things straight, psychiatric wards are not like they are presented in movies from early 2000's/ the 90's. There are no straight jackets, there are no padded isolation rooms which is a blessing. I could never imagine being put in a padded room. The ward I was on was quite warming and seemed like a welcoming environment where they would try to make the environment as normal as possible while giving patients clinical treatment. I remember not sleeping for the first night bec...

Portrayal of Mental Health in Different Mediums: Do They Do a Good Job

How is Mental Health Represented? Mental health doesn’t tend to be represented too often within film and TV shows; however, book authors seem to frequently write characters who have mental health issues. A great example would be the main character from Sharp Objects, Camille Preaker. I’ll talk more about her later in this post. I’ve seen many movies over the years like everyone else, and I’ve found that either movies try to avoid mental health topics, or they just do a bad representation of such issues. Which Medium Does It Best? I’ll be honest and say that I’m not quite sure, I’m leaning more towards TV shows since I’ve seen a lot of TV series with decent mental health representations. Such TV shows/ series would be: Red Band Society Sharp Objects (based on the book) Hollyoaks Jessica Jones Retched You’ll realise that I have not put 13 Reasons Why in my list, that’s because I think it is a very damaging show for people with mental health issues and it roma...

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