Mental health services at university

What wellbeing and mental health services are available at university?

I sit down with Josie Bannon, Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner at the University of Exeter to talk about the services the university offers to students. We talk about exam stress, adapting to life at university, and the whole spectrum of wellbeing from feeling overwhelmed to needing to mitigate exams.

The services at Exeter are truly exceptional in this regard, but your campus will have similar services. If you feel that any of the issues in this video series are relevant to you please consider getting in touch with your campus mental health or wellbeing services. Don't suffer in silence or wait for your mental state to become 'serious enough'. These services exist to help you, and they would want nothing less than a student to suffer and worry and not get in contact.

Your mental health is incredibly important and you deserve to be well in yourself. If you need help to be that, then that is no reflection on you as a person. Asking for that help shows huge strength.

Link to Exeter's wellbeing services: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/wellbeing/

A video outlining the support available at Oxford University:    • HT4: Mental health and Oxford  

I talk about my experiences with mental health in my Draw My Life video:    • Draw my life - SimonOxfPhys  

Next video:    • When should I get in touch with campu...  
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I am Simon, a third year PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. I upload videos on bits of science which are relevant to what I do, and sometimes just because they're really cool.

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