Students’ Mental Health Day is on Thursday, 22 April,2021. In this year’s #HelpWorthy campaign, we tackle the obstacles for seeking help.
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It’s important to ask “How are you?” and to listen closely. Young carers’ stories are constantly being told all around us. We just have to tune our ears to hear them.
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Freedom is often mentioned as a positive aspect of the student life. With an increase in studying from home and remote teaching, students now take on even more responsibility in planning and scheduling their studies.
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Sure, there are positive aspects to studying remotely, especially for us, who are located in a different city than our higher education institutions. You can attend lectures just fine over a video connection, and seminar meetings are running without a hitch over the internet. When there’s less mandatory commuting, there’s more time to study and recover from the workload. However, I do feel that we should think of a way to incorporate more than one method for completing courses remotely in the future. Even when studying at home, people have different ways of learning.
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Being a student is sometimes like riding a train: Sometimes there’s a delay or a brief shutdown, and at other times it’s a smooth ride forward, like you would expect when heading down a ready-made track. Fortunately, the tracks can be repaired, developed, and improved for the proverbial train so that every student can have a steady and safe ride during their studies.
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It’s a professional trait that doesn’t turn a blind eye to other people in a conference room or a lecture hall, and it doesn’t look for persons who are ‘worthy’ of compassion. It encourages young people to adopt an action-oriented mutual responsibility. The starting point for pedagogy of compassion is that the compassionate agent cannot always be distinguished from the receiver of compassion.
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I graduated with a master’s degree in political sciences three years ago, in June. The change was fundamental, as I had been a student basically throughout my twenties.
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This spring has been an unusual one. These exceptional circumstances have affected all of us, some more favorably than others
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The implications of a lack of a sense of community are harsh. Anxiety, depression, study burnout, exclusion and an early death are all more common among people who feel lonely.
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If you have psychological symptoms, have mercy on yourself. Your symptoms are not your own fault.
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