Home Workouts: A Guide
With term looming and a reading list down to our feet, we’re all getting our fair share of mental exercise. But with thinking comes frustration, and...
Anxiety and Me
If I am having a bad day I am going to tell you and have no shame about it.
Sleep is for the Rich
This may sound familiar. Five political prisoners are locked in a gas chamber in 1940s Russia. In a military-sanctioned experiment, the subjects are kept awake...
New Oxfordshire service supports children’s mental health
Oxfordshire Discovery College is a new mental health service supporting children and young people. It was created in response to research findings that rates...
A Bleak Night from a Student’s View
Ben Gray discusses the impact of the University's coronavirus strategy on mental health.
New Oxford study identifies main suicide risk factors
Last week, researchers from the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, published a new study on lifetime suicide risk factors in the...
Why the vac isn’t enough to solve Oxford’s mental health problem
"There are few greater
temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to
read all the books in the Bodleian.”
Although I...
Review: Section Two
Phoebe Hennell reviews Tom Gould's new play 'Section Two'
For whom and for how long?
Reminiscing about one’s teenage years is a rather cinematic task. After all, Hollywood has made a great profit from narrating stories about what being a teenager should be and feel like.
The fractured mind, literature, and society.
“I felt the narrowing of my life to a very fine point. A hard triangle of a life over and me sprawled at its peak, hopeless and lost.” - Russell Brand, describing a mental breakdown.
Love Island: the breaking point for exploitative television?
"Love Island doesn’t just expose its contestants to the vitriol of the public, it actively encourages it."
Hungry for Love, or Just Plain Hungry?
Exploring the problematic depiction of eating habits in ‘Love Island’
The exploitation of musicians’ emotional struggles
"The general reaction to musicians’ pains is a testament to the humanity of our age."
Should we cancel reality TV?
Given the recent suspected suicides, should shows like Love Island and Jeremy Kyle be allowed on our televisions?