Mental Health May: An emotional reflection
Brig editor Stuart Graham reflections on Mental Health May and what the whole month has meant for him.
“Finding your support network as an international student is really really difficult” – Mental Health Q&A
German-American international student Melissa Remington talks about the differing cultural attitudes to mental health
“I would say I’m a functioning anxious person” – Mental Health Q&A
Kieran Daly talks to Brig about living with depression and anxiety, and how he has been able to cope with it.
First-class depression
The life of a Third Culture Kid is exciting and a real privilege. It brings about its own complications: no human is immune to the brain.
“I didn’t want to show him that his son was weak and broken.” – Mental Health Story
Brig writer Cameron Watson opens up about his history with depression, and how he fought back.
“I don’t think I spoke to a single person outside my family for two years.” – Mental Health Q&A
An anonymous contributor talks about their history with mental health and the incidents they most associate with it in their life
“I think that the stigma needs to go away and the idea of a crazy person needs to go away” – Mental Health Q&A
Brig writer Cameron Watson talks to an anonymous student about how depression and anxiety have affected them.
“I had an eating disorder for 5 years” – Mental Health Q&A
Brig hears from an anonymous source about dealing with eating disorders and how these impacted their life
“My friends keep dying and I think we should talk about it” – Mental Health story
Mhairi McNeil shares with Brig her battle with mental illness and opens up about losing friends to suicide.
Union President Astrid Smallenbroek – Mental Health Q&A
Brig talks to Astrid Smallenbroek about what she will do for mental health when in office for 17/18.
