Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 - Loneliness
This years theme for mental health awareness week is loneliness. One in four adults feel lonely some or all of the time. There’s no...
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Below you will find regularly updated articles written by the wellbeing team covering a range of topics to help support your mental wellbeing. Please browse all of the articles and check back for new and updated posts.
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BURNOUT.
This article has been written & shared with us by Mohammad Askari, a student from the department of Engineering. I usually draft my posts...
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Tips to look after your wellbeing during worrying world affairs
For the last month, we have been thrust into a world where we have been continually exposed to distressing, shocking and...
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Sexual Communication - Why is it Important?
Communication in any relationship is indispensable for creating a strong bond between a couple and a part of that communication is...
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University Mental Health Day 2022
This year's University Mental Health Day falls on March 3rd 2022. University Mental Health Day is an opportunity to bring together the...
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When can procrastinating be healthy?
Article from Patient.info We often hear about the negative effects of procrastinating, from the additional stress it causes to poorer...
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How to Know If You Are In a Healthy Relationship
Relationships are an important part of a healthy life. Research has consistently shown that social connections are critical for both...
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LGBT+ History Month 2022: Fifty years of Pride in the UK
LGBT+ History Month is a chance to shed new light on the history of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people in the UK. This year, we’ll be...
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Why we need to normalise self-care for men
Article from Patient.info We're often encouraged to prioritise productivity over our health and well-being. When we're busy, practising...
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Self-care, how to make it work for you
Self-care can mean different things to different people. For many, with the current prevalence of an ever-growing multi-million-pound...
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Winter Wellbeing
Tips to look after your wellbeing this Christmas Obviously, all of us will be in very different situations this winter holiday. But...
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Your wellbeing matters this Christmas
Christmas can be a joyful time of year for some people, through connecting to people they love and joining in with celebrations. And it...
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Revision Tips: How to avoid a meltdown in the exam hall.
Experts offer their advice on exam preparation – from different studying methods to dealing with mid-paper panic Article take from The...
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Managing the Impacts of Being Spiked
Spiking is a topic that has populated the media since the re-opening of nightclubs a few months ago, and unfortunately Sheffield hasn’t...
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Guidance and tips for navigating conversations with a friend about their wellbeing
We all experience difficulties at different times in our life. When we are distressed it is hard to think logically and see things...
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How to stop overthinking in the middle of the night
Article Taken from the Telegraph* We’ve all been there – awake at 3am – but while some of us can go back to sleep easily, for others it’s...
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Right as rain! 10 ways to boost your mood on grey, wet or cold days
I read this article in the Guardian newspaper, and as we are now (reluctantly) heading into the darker colder months, it has some great...
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Research Reveals How to Take a Better Break
Something here which we probably all have to learn how to do better with our working lives, our studies, and in our lives in general when...
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Sleep
Sleep, is essential for all areas of our physical and mental wellbeing. We usually know when we are not getting enough, or how energised...
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‘Balance is fulfilling’: how to look after your mental health at uni
Another really good article I came across recently, the title says it all really! From the Guardian online (https://www.theguardian.com/e...
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