Depression awareness
A recent survey by MIND has estimated that over 40% of students in the UK will suffer from anxiety or depression at some point in their university careers. Depression is an exceptionally common condition. If you feel you may be suffering from depression we would strongly urge you to seek medical advice. It is important to remember that you are not alone, there are plenty of people wanting to help you.
Facts and myths
1. Which group of people is the least likely to be able to get a job?
a. blind people b. deaf people c. people with mental health problems
2. What proportion of people will experience a mental health problem in the course of a year?
a. one in a hundred b. one in ten c. one in four
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3. By 2020, the World Health Organisation believes that depression will occupy which position in the league of international health burdens?
a. second b. fifth c. tenth
4. What percentage of people with mental health problems say they have experienced discrimination in the workplace?
a. 17 per cent b. 27 per cent c. 47 per cent
Answers 1(c) 2(c) 3(a) 4(c)
Awareness Raising
The SU will run a Mental Health Awareness week
in week 9 of Lent Term to raise awareness of depression and reduce the stigma surrounding it. We also seek to provide information to those people who may be feeling depressed so that they can get the help they need. Depression is not a sign of weakness and can be successfully treated. For more information on that week, please contact Alexandra Vincenti, the Education and Welfare Officer of the Union at su.edwelfare@lse.ac.uk
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This year, the Students Union is also running an all encompassing 'Healthy Living' campaign.
Click on the sub-menu on the right for more information about this campaign and for free tools to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle.
[www.depressionalliance.co.uk]is an excellent website written by LSE students for LSE students, which can give you advice and information to help you tackle depression including symptoms, positive steps you can take to tackle it and even alternative therapies and contacts.
Also, don't forget that LSE Health Centre
and theSU Advice Centre both have trained counsellors who will be happy to help you.
Click here to be taken to the useful links page, where you will find some excellent self-help websites.
