Patrick Hamilton's Gas Light: The Origins of Gaslighting

By Olivia Chalmers

Trigger warning: emotional abuse, gaslighting

The origins of gaslighting had never occurred to me. The term and its meaning was something that just became common knowledge to me through social media and sadly, personal experience. Victims of gaslighting are instilled with... Read more

How Mental Health Literature can be effective in education

By Ellie Thurston 

Mental Health is still considered a taboo subject this day and age, which is a very worrying thing due to the fact that '1 in 4 people experience mental health issues each year (1)' but more importantly 'according to a national survey, about 50% of youth between the ages of 13-18 experiences a mental health disorder at some point in their life'. Which raises the question, if one in four people experience mental health... Read more

What Life Was Like in Victorian Asylums

By Holly Mullis

When you are told to picture a Mental Asylum, what do you imagine? A large, scary, and cold building? Padded cells, strait jackets, pills in cups? Lobotomies and electroshock therapy? Well, how about during the Victorian era? Thanks to most horror films, that's how most people now a days picture Mental Asylums. However, they... Read more

The Hypersexualisation of young teenage girls in mainstream media - why?

By Frances Bullock

TW: Grooming, abuse.

When I was a teenager I was obsessed with playing with my friends and staying out for as long as possible before my parents would shout at me to come and eat my dinner. Social media hadn't really taken off back then and Facebook was entirely new... Read more