Lucy Clitheroe – 2nd Year Psychology BSc Student; Course Representative In the current pandemic, many people’s mental health has been negatively impacted (Holmes et al., 2020). As a member of the Student Representative Team at Southampton, we are currently experiencing increased reports of loneliness and difficulty separating home and work life …
Hannah Walker – 3rd year BSc Psychology student. My main experience with mental health is with schizophrenia, because I have worked as a Health Care Assistant in an NHS schizophrenia ward for a year and a half. Working there has given me great insight into the personal experiences of the …
Tell us a little about yourself: My name is Saskia and I am currently a first year student studying a BSc in Psychology. What is your experience with raising awareness of mental health? After having my own experiences with mental illness, I decided to dedicate a lot more of my …
Brooke Owen – MSc in Foundations in Psychology, University of Southampton. Like many people mental illness has had a huge effect on mine, my friends and my families live. As my mum battled with peri-natal OCD twice, my home environment was very open when it came to mental health issues. …