There already was a crisis, our mental health services were a total joke even before coronavirus.
In many ways this unfortunately isn’t too surprising… we have an entire cohort of students who had the rug pulled out from under their feet right as they were gaining or experiencing independence for the first time… the normal pressures of university life continued but in an incredibly unusual (and unnatural) way… a few months (or years) of such a high stress situation, combined with uncertainty about the future, and anxiety almost seems like the most natural response :/
I don’t think it’ll be restricted to the university cohort either, it’s probably just that they’re the easiest to poll via student unions and such, perhaps it’s time the government started supporting younger people for once by increasing funding for mental health services nationally, expensive in the interim for sure, but I think the alternative (letting people go untreated and without support) will prove much more costly down the road
My local Mental Health Trust is associated with like 2000 to 4000 deaths in the last 10 years ish. There’s already a crisis and this is just going to be piled on top to punish anyone not paying private as Tories want.
It’s everywhere, with 4.3m people waiting for help on the NHS. Students have had it rough with COVID and universities need to do more to get things back to normal so those who started under lockdown can enjoy what time they have left at uni, it is never too late to make good friends there.
It does not help that the future does not look bright right now either. The war in Ukraine, Brexit, COVID still ongoing, climate change etc. It can be hard to think positive when the outlook looks grim in both the immediate and long term.
aka lockdown generation… honestly, when is it going to stop being forbidden to actually acknowledge that covid itself wasn’t the entire source of stress and trauma, but the way the government dealt with it?
I’ve literally only had one proper semester of university out of my three year Bachelor’s course. Hasn’t exactly done wonders for me.
Vaccine damage.
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Partly the reason I didn’t go back to do my Masters was how bad uni would be during covid. Sitting in a room watching lectures. No fun is it? Instead I got a job sat at home getting similarly depressed, but making money rather than paying it.
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There already was a crisis, our mental health services were a total joke even before coronavirus.
In many ways this unfortunately isn’t too surprising… we have an entire cohort of students who had the rug pulled out from under their feet right as they were gaining or experiencing independence for the first time… the normal pressures of university life continued but in an incredibly unusual (and unnatural) way… a few months (or years) of such a high stress situation, combined with uncertainty about the future, and anxiety almost seems like the most natural response :/
I don’t think it’ll be restricted to the university cohort either, it’s probably just that they’re the easiest to poll via student unions and such, perhaps it’s time the government started supporting younger people for once by increasing funding for mental health services nationally, expensive in the interim for sure, but I think the alternative (letting people go untreated and without support) will prove much more costly down the road
My local Mental Health Trust is associated with like 2000 to 4000 deaths in the last 10 years ish. There’s already a crisis and this is just going to be piled on top to punish anyone not paying private as Tories want.
It’s everywhere, with 4.3m people waiting for help on the NHS. Students have had it rough with COVID and universities need to do more to get things back to normal so those who started under lockdown can enjoy what time they have left at uni, it is never too late to make good friends there.
It does not help that the future does not look bright right now either. The war in Ukraine, Brexit, COVID still ongoing, climate change etc. It can be hard to think positive when the outlook looks grim in both the immediate and long term.
aka lockdown generation… honestly, when is it going to stop being forbidden to actually acknowledge that covid itself wasn’t the entire source of stress and trauma, but the way the government dealt with it?
I’ve literally only had one proper semester of university out of my three year Bachelor’s course. Hasn’t exactly done wonders for me.
Vaccine damage.
[removed]
Partly the reason I didn’t go back to do my Masters was how bad uni would be during covid. Sitting in a room watching lectures. No fun is it? Instead I got a job sat at home getting similarly depressed, but making money rather than paying it.