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13Sep

5 Tips if You Are Starting University This Year

Alice McGurran

anxiety, depression, society, student, tips, university, wellbeing

Work

You will have been told repeatedly that university will be the best time of your life. Fingers crossed that's true, but here's five things to know which will hopefully make your first year go smoothly.
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04Aug

I Want to End Stigma Around Mental Health

Fixers

creativity, depression, society, student, therapy, university

Mind

Naomi Gilchrist made a book about mental ilness, with the help of Fixers, a charity dedicated to giving young people a voice.
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17Jun

Negotiating Your Cultural Identity

Semeyra Sarwar

culture, depression, identity, self, society, student, university

Therapists

Therapist Semeyra Sarwar opens up about negotiating her own cultural identity and the difficulties therein; confusion, anxiety, isolation.
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08Jun

How Social Anxiety Turned My World Upside Down

Fixers

anxiety, cbt, self, student, therapy, university

Mind

Hannah Kara shares her experience of dealing with social anxiety, bought on by a panic attack in 2012.
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27May

7 Ways to Manage Exam Stress

Welldoing

self, stress, student, tips, university

Work

Therapist Dawn Hastings shares her seven tips to help keep exam stress at bay, look after yourself and perform your best.
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12Feb

11 Things to Know About Starting a New Job

The Chartered

career, unemployment, university

Work

These eleven simple tips will help you become more adaptable and productive; making starting your new job less stressful.
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26Nov

How To Succeed in a Job Interview

Michael Parker

career, confidence, jobs, success, university

Work

Been struggling in job interviews? Treat it like a pitch says Michael Parker. Here are his 7 tips for success, whatever stage you're at in your career.
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10Nov

Student: Coping with Depression at University

John Servante

counselling, depression, mental health, student, therapy, university

Work

A personal account of suffering from depression at university and what you can do to help.
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29Oct

Finding Your University Identity

Terri Apter

identity, self, student, university

Work

Dr Terri Apter explores why change at university it so difficult and addresses the challenges faced by young people at university for the first time.
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10Jul

Don't Judge Me For Not Getting Drunk With Work Mates

Claudine Levy

career, friendship, self, society, university

Work

I realised that binge drinking wasn’t for me during my Fresher’s Week at university. This is the infamous time in every young adult’s life which consists of masochistically getting bladdered repeatedly, in the hope of forming some lasting bonds of friendship with a group of petrified fellow students. All so that we could LOL about our collective hangovers and embarrassing hook-ups of the morning after the night before. Of course the natural antidote to our terror about being alone was to glug as much poison as humanly possible. Away from home, and far from the...
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