Week 1, Session 1

16/7
Lifehack lecture — wellbeing

We had a lecture from the Lifehack team about wellbeing and how mental illness is no longer considered a straight line — you're either ill and need help or you're fine. Now days, wellbeing is split into 5 different sections that all contribute to a better mental health.

In groups, we then talked about some questions that Lifehack provided, such as; what are times that I felt positive/well and what are times that I felt negative/struggling. Through conversation with the rest of the group we also tried to delve into why these times made us feel this way.

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It was interesting to hear what others had said and I feel like I got a good picture of what things affect my wellbeing in positive and negative ways.

This was interesting as I've never thought about this before and don't really think about wellbeing but I feel like I already knew a lot of it subconsciously. I know that if I work to hard I need time to do absolutely nothing and how a holiday or even just going out on a saturday night gives me a mental break. It was definitely useful though to bring these thoughts to the front of my brain and actual realise them and try to break them down and I feel like this will help me on the rest of the project.