The Perspective Project is a website that hosts art, poetry, and writing to provide a creative outlet for those experiencing mental health problems.
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This Valentine’s Day, don’t forget about self-love
Regardless of your relationship status, be your own Valentine this Valentine’s Day and send yourself a card that you definitely won’t rip up.
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World Mental Health Day 10/10/17
it’s very grey outside today. looking out of the window to see this a few months ago could have brought me to tears. perhaps stopped me from getting out of bed in the morning. potentially stopped me from eating anything for that day. i would have sat silently in a cold room, trying desperately to…
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Repoliticising Depression: Late Mark Fisher’s Vital Lesson
On the 13th of January 2017 British writer, thinker and theorist Mark Fisher committed suicide. Fisher, working as a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London had started his academic career by completing a PhD in ‘Cybernetic Theory Fiction’ at the University of Warwick. However, most of Fisher’s most important work took place outside of…
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Is there any scientific validity to meditation’s so-called benefits?
In recent years meditation has managed to shirk its label as a hippie practice, rebranding itself and becoming more popular in the West than ever before. Endorsed by businesses and universities alike, they boast that it helps focus, reduces stress, and can actually make the user more content. But how do the claims of this…
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Is Capitalism to Blame For Our Health Anxiety?
Health anxiety affects 20% of the general population. In our fragile capitalist climate, analysing the relationship between systematic insecurity and biological insecurity may well be overdue.
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Travelling with mental health issues
I love travelling. As a child I was lucky that my parents would save up to take us on a holiday each year. Guernsey was my first trip not on the UK mainland, and for a five year old, travelling on a plane was immensely exciting. Fast forward to my early twenties, and my excitement…
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Is the modern world good for our mental health?
Back in the AS year at my sixth form, I remember vividly settling for an essay question in one of my General Studies exams: “The 21st century is the best time to be living. Discuss.” If this was not the exact phrasing then it was certainly very close. My memory is vivid because it seemed…
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