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Is my case serious enough to talk to campus mental health services?



Is my case serious enough to talk to campus mental health services?

I feel like my mental health isn’t great but am I serious enough to talk to campus wellbeing services?

If you think this video speaks to you, please please please get in touch with your campus mental health or wellbeing services. I regret not contacting the services in Oxford every day.

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/
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Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiZiIJMDh4ynsIwGRXEIKGl-8djnBK1d3

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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.

Vlogs from Oxford students – http://www.youtube.com/oxvlog
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Thanks to Vlogbrothers for their sponsorship of this video. Money from the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck contributed to equipment used in this video.

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  2. @AP-by6dp on

    Thank you so much for this video (and all the others) Simon!Another thing (it might help) is not thinking "how serious is my problem/is it serious enough" but more like "how seriously is the problem affecting me"

  4. @Ian-vm3qp on

    This playlist is so helpful! Stuff like this is so reassuring to students going through school now. Hopefully you can keep providing content like this that bring important things like this to people's attention.

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