Tag: mental health

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    Reece Beckett

    Hidden Gems: Anne Sexton’s Live or Die (1966)

    *TW: Mental health, suicide* Anne Sexton’s work in poetry generally seems to have been left behind by many. This may speak to a general preference within popular poetry to focus more so on stories of redemption, whilst Sexton’s usually bleak outlook – and her bleaker personal life, made public – take her work away from […]

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    Elizabeth Sorrell

    WESLEY And American Gun Culture: A Conversation With Travis Andrade

    WESLEY is a haunting short film about the pervasiveness of American gun culture on young boys. It is the story of Wesley (James Sandler), a young boy who is both surrounded and fascinated by guns. When Blake (Johnathan Irwin), a troubled friend of his older brother has gotten hold of a 3D-printed gun, we follow […]

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    Katie Evans

    Pure: A New Face For Mental Health

    Katie Evans discusses why we should be watching Pure.

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    Maddie Lock

    Review: Demi Lovato – ‘Anyone’

    Demi Lovato is back with important new single, ‘Anyone’

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    Amy Penn

    Notes on News: Are Love Island producers doing enough to protect contestants’ mental health?

    Amy Penn explores how we can all help to protect the mental health of contestants on ITV2’s most popular show.

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    Maddie Lock

    Review: Orla Gartland – Why Am I Like This? EP

    Maddie Lock review’s Orla Gartland’s “smashing” latest EP.

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    Charlotte Colombo

    Lessons I’ve Learnt From: BoJack Horseman

    Charlotte Colombo dives into the bleak and nihilstic world of Hollywoo to decipher what BoJack Horseman has taught her.

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    Joe Williams

    Review: 13 Reasons Why (Season 2, Episode 13)

    Joe Williams reviews the troubling finale of the Netflix show’s second season.

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    Tom Randall

    Violence and Insanity in Video Games

    Tom Randall dares you to confront the themes of morality and insanity in modern videogames.

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    Thea Hartman

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was released 55 years ago

    Ken Kesey’s groundbreaking and memorable novel about mental health treatment celebrates another anniversary.

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    Hollie Geraghty

    Mental Health in Film: Helpful Vs Harmful

    For Mental Health Awareness Week, we look at different films and their portrayals of mental health.

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    Sophie Trenear

    The therapists pumping through your speakers

    Sophie Trenear looks at how Fall Out Boy’s music covers mental health matters.

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    Ellis Murrell

    Shadows of Mental Health: Silent Hill 2

    Terrifying, but thoughtful and important. Ellis Murrell analyses Silent Hill 2, and how it makes monsters of men.

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    Bruno Russell

    Music as Medication: A Way of Relieving Anxiety

    Bruno Russell explores how music can be used a tool for overcoming stress and anxiety through its power as a form of release and expression.