FEELING BLUE? Mental Health at Cambridge University

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FEELING BLUE? Mental Health at Cambridge University | Documentary

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Luke Naylor-Perrott - Director/Creator/Editor/Producer/Writer/Camera Operator
Jay Richardson - Composer/Producer/Writer
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Lily Baldwin - Writer/Co-Producer/Camera Operator
Anthony Baston - Creator/Presenter/Co-Producer
Katie Gibson & Anna Gibbons - Researchers
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@emilygrace2620 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for making this video. I'm a mum of a third year HSPS student who reached mental 'shut down' point just before final exams a couple of weeks ago, couldn't get the coursework done and has left and applied to intermit which we will be assessed on 31st May, although she had to leave immediately. This has been building for two years. She loves Cambridge, appreciates her supervisors, tutors and DoS's, has worked so very hard and really genuinely cares about the subjects and studies. I think her experience will reflect many other students in that she was always behind and then - despite continual work - felt she was just perhaps too disorganised, lazy, not good enough to be there etc etc. and didn't feel she had a right to seek help either as felt other people must have much worse problems than she did. She assumed she would just manage to pull it together when the time came, fired up by motivation, but went the opposite way :( Whilst it is easy, of course, for me to tell her she is not a 'failure' and her happiness and wellbeing is so much more important than any degree, my daughter naturally feels rather defeated and this video has been so reassuring for her. THANK YOU for caring enough to produce this. I am sure it will be helpful in all areas to address this issue!

@Clara-eu3mp 4 жыл бұрын

Your daughter's story is very similar to mine, and I hope it has a better ending that mine did. The intermission process is incredibly stressful in and of itself, and in completely unnecessary ways. Having to leave immediately, before permission to intermit has even been given, is absurd; I was told that if I stayed in college it would 'look bad', and the decision-makers might decide on that basis that I didn't need to intermit at all. Did you know that intermitting used to be called 'degrading'? As in, that was the official term? They would have said your daughter was applying for permission to degrade, and if she was successful, she would have degraded. There was a student campaign called 'Degrading is Degrading', which pushed the university to change the name and a few of the more humiliating and extreme policies (like not being allowed to remain in the city at all), but it wasn't enough; there was a follow-up campaign called 'Intermission is Still Degrading', calling the change out for what it was - rebranding, not reforming. As for feeling like you're 'not good enough to be there', that is an insecurity that the university actively cultivates a lot of the time; one professor actually went on record in an interview saying that students shouldn't assume they're good enough just because they were accepted - this was for a news article! Even though you've been hand-picked for the honour of attending Cambridge, they still try to make you feel insecure. Insecurity is supposed to inspire people to work harder to prove that they're good enough. I haven't even watched this video yet because I worry it will be too upsetting, so I don't know whether they address this, but my perception of Cambridge is that they encourage a sort of martyr complex in student culture. It's almost like medieval flagellants who believed that hurting themselves was a testament to the strength of their faith. Being mentally unwell and studying anyway is treated like a noble sacrifice. It's not the same as being proud of someone for overcoming adversity; it's an active fetishisation of suffering. I even have a friend who was told by his supervisor that 'it's good that you're fucked up, because fucked-up people get firsts.' Anyway, I really hope your daughter's intermission worked out, and that things have changed since 2014.

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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@kawtharahmed485 5 жыл бұрын

Paige sented me here. Right now almost every student is stressed because its exam season by the way im not a college student but by the look of the students you can tell they are pretty stressed and FEEL BLUUE

@Voldemorti 4 жыл бұрын

*sent

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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@themousemafia 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for giving a voice to all of us who went through this experience, and knew this reality of Cambridge. These voices represent so many of my friends and colleagues who were battered by the experience of being here.

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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@matthewhale2531 5 жыл бұрын

I think there are 2 main messages in this documentary: 1) They are arguing the University should take more measures to prevent mental health issues developing and becoming seriously out of hand 2) I don't think they're putting people off of applying, but instead showing the reality of Oxbridge and that it isn't a Utopia. It is very much a place of work. For many, it becomes too much. I think this is a message to prospective students as much as it is to the University, that they should be warned and raring to go if they apply. It shouldn't be somewhere to apply just because you're smart. I think we should be grateful that this video has been produced regardless of what happens because it opens up our eyes as to what the University of Cambridge (and indeed Oxford) is like, and by watching this people can make more informed decisions about applying.

@TickleMeElmo55 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent point on #2.

@milly4543 5 жыл бұрын

I feel so bad for the guy that has to keep rowing a secret. It definitely is weird. I'm from Australia and we get encouraged to balance our interests, be active. Playing a sport and having hobbies is preferable and will help you start up conversations even with academics. As for the lack of mental health and disability support, I'm genuinely speechless. Guess I expected so much more from an institution like Cambridge. There's something wrong with a system that forces you to let go of everything just to be able to stay on top of work. btw Paige sent me here haha

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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@eve8372 5 жыл бұрын

More people NEED to watch this video, the problems described at Cambridge aren't exclusive to Cambridge, but no student deserves the treatment and lack of support described. I'm sure there are many lovely counselors and people there who are trying hard to support students, but there NEEDS to be more access to those services, and people claiming it's fine even when they have students complaining (and rightfully so) is so dismissive. I really hope that changes are made following this video (as I want to apply to Cambridge this year but my mental health is struggling as it is with the pressures of A levels)

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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@punpun3979 5 жыл бұрын

Everyone is blaming each other and the teachers are keep saying “oh well its a part of life to be stressed” that is true but if you are willing to push your students to point of breaking your students down that isnt normal. That is just abuse, stress shouldnt be a part of driving students to their best. Stress destroys our mind and slowly makes us more vulnerable and unstable. If they are going to use the excuse “well if they dont stress out they wont do their best, like look at the results” this excuse just shows how messed up your morals are. Does a school’s reputation matter more than the well-being of their students? I really am just enraged about this, this needs to change, rather than just saying “oh this is how its always been” they need to change this. If this is how one of the best universities environment is, is it even worth going there? Just how important is education that we need to destroy our mental health for it? -opinion of a student

@punpun3979 4 жыл бұрын

Rahul Sarkar Even if there is a difference my point was about stress and how they use it to drive students and how I think thats wrong so I have no idea what your point is lol

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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@TheHollyChronicle 5 жыл бұрын

This was shot and edited so well, and the research done was also great :)

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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@abbybluemusic 4 жыл бұрын

This is such a beautiful piece of work. Thank you

@loneranger5412 4 жыл бұрын

You know its really hard to adjust from school to university.....you go from being herded from class to class by a bell at school to being dumped into lectures no structure and self study i struggled myself at 18 i finished and passed my course but it was really tough.......

@dadt8009 3 жыл бұрын

I make my own rule, set my own goal, run my own race. Be yourself, do what you want. There are different ways of being successful, of enriching yourself and helping others.

@youngdre2859 5 жыл бұрын

Paige sent me

@steffliot3788 4 жыл бұрын

Big Bang!

@rachelkaraoke7461 5 жыл бұрын

You are all amazing intelligent people with an understanding of how many of us live with depression I send you all love and say this ...... let’s not think about this too much this whole system of super rich accommodation high pressure life YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO OFFER TO PERGAPS A SMALL SELF SIPORTING COMMINITY

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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@nicole_holding 5 жыл бұрын

I watched the documentary and I have one question. With such short terms and excessive work load because of the short terms does a student have the time to actually learn properly, have the time to consolidate what they have learnt, have time to improve their essay techniques etc or are they just skimming over a heap of work and putting together a stack of unpolished essays that they are going to forget about in a few weeks because they haven't had the time to really delve into the topic and really understand it in depth? To me that is not learning. That video has put me off Cambridge. It is not getting the best out of its students.

@saro374 5 жыл бұрын

I go to Cambridge myself, and you are pretty right. Terms are short but very very tough, so most students just rush through the work as much as they can during term time. However, in terms of real consolidation, this tends to happen more over the holidays and during exam term (i.e completely by yourself) which brings up a whole new type of worry and stress sometimes!

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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@rachelkaraoke7461 5 жыл бұрын

And positivity to see how we could possibly build or at least try build a community funded community

@bothi00 5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit Lily could actually be Emma Watsons Doppelganger

@sukmidik1051 5 жыл бұрын

Came bc of PaigeY

@andres.alegre 5 жыл бұрын

So Churchill College is not the place to go if you want to feel supported am i right?

@nat9521 4 жыл бұрын

I went to Churchill and I always felt supported (though I never sought help regarding mental health problems so my experience may be limited). A college is made up of many individuals, all very different from each other.

@arabellat 2 жыл бұрын

i'm not sure if the system has changed since now but i assume by tutor this documentary means the welfare tutors, and i'd have to say as a student going into my 3rd year at Cambridge I've met "my" tutor (and there are maybe 7 for the entire college) twice for the yearly prescribed tutor meetings at which i was asked a prescribed set of questions and the only real concerns he had were that i wasn't going to lectures, in that it could impact my academic performance, and i am surprised that members of staff in this documentary are treating them like integral parts of the welfare system

@MsRosirosi 5 жыл бұрын

13:32 Why on earth did they put 4 finals in 5 days? That doesn't make any sense.

@orueom7720 5 жыл бұрын

You'd get that at most unis...its not specific to cambridge ffs

@MsRosirosi 5 жыл бұрын

@@orueom7720 In my university (here in Portugal) the finals are more spread out. At least a day or two between them, that's why I was surprised.

@orueom7720 5 жыл бұрын

@@MsRosirosi you are somewhat used to it by the timd you get to uni over here at least. In my A -Levels i had back to back exams, it wasn't that big of a deal. Mostly mattered on how prepared you were

@rachelkaraoke7461 5 жыл бұрын

you would have the POWER

@rachelkaraoke7461 5 жыл бұрын

It’s your talent and expertise not the name of the uni

@fraser1237 2 жыл бұрын

These people will go on to earn lots of money and live happy lives, 3 years of bloody hard graft should be expected. It's the top uni in the world. Remember you and only you signed up for this.

@rachelkaraoke7461 5 жыл бұрын

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@christianrothe6185 5 жыл бұрын

they dont push themselves through the force of will not to die of aging process before finishing near death experience but we´re all christians

@adelapopovici2409 5 жыл бұрын

You are so stressed because you choose to care what degree you want. You think that if you have a 2.2 someone will judge you and think you're not good enough, but it's nothing like that. I wish that any of the Cambridge students could come to a Romanian University to see how much information is given to us too and how students deal with it. I don't think that at Cambridge, a teacher publishes right before an exam a 400 pages course and you have to learn it in two weeks notice.I think there's a problem of perspective too and I think that you put on yourselves too much pressure. If I'm mistaken then there's my bad, but this is just my opinion and untill I see exactly how much worload do you have I don't think I can make an accurate comparison.

@Voldemorti 4 жыл бұрын

for some supervisions at Cambridge you have to read 1000 pages.

@funpetscanada 3 жыл бұрын

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