Apparently, I am a university student. I haven’t had any in person learning since March. I was planning to return to a vastly different experience this month with all lectures online but at least the tutorials in person. Now even that has changed. My head is all over the place […]
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Are you OK?
This week, the Government announced the ‘Are you Ok?’ campaign, a response to the damaging effects COVID-19 has had on many Manxies’ mental health. The scheme is encouraging us to chat and open up to one another, to reduce some of our anxieties. We caught up with the Chief Minister […]
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OCD in a pandemic
I’ve had obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) since I was a child, and I like to think I’ve got a pretty good handle on it after years of careful management.
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Cycling ‘The Lap’ with Anna Christian
Being part of the global sport that is cycling, and with friends based in all corners of the world, I’ve heard so much about how different countries are handling this pandemic and the restrictions they have in place. I feel so lucky that our lockdown has allowed us to still […]
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Stay at home!… if you have one
To most the message is very clear “stay at home”, but what if you don’t have a home to stay at home in?
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Managing your mental health during a lockdown 🔑
Let’s face it, if we’d been told 12 months ago that we’d be spending our lives quarantined in our own homes to help combat a pandemic flu which originated in bats, many of us would have shook our heads and said ‘I could never do that, I just wouldn’t cope’…