Student Resources

If you’ve ever walked the road of recovery, through anxiety, depression, burnout, grief, trauma, you know that healing isn’t linear.

You don’t have to hit rock bottom to deserve help. You only need to be human.

While most of us focus on external factors, strategy, skill, timing…there’s a quieter, internal player shaping our response to professional disappointment: dopamine.

If we are to rebuild a sustainable, productive economy, we must first understand and invest in the psychological wellbeing of the workforce.

There’s a vital piece of the return-to-work puzzle that often goes under-recognised: psychological resilience.

Stress eating, also known as emotional eating, is a common response to stress, driven by powerful biological and psychological mechanisms.

Stress can trigger neuroinflammation, a condition where the brain’s immune system becomes overactive.

What might look like economic efficiency from Westminster can feel very different to those living in the messy, complex, and deeply personal realities of being out of work.

Burnout is more than just feeling tired after a long day. It’s a state of chronic physical and emotional exhaustion.

We explore why boundaries are essential, how they impact stress levels, and how you can start setting them today.