CLARA FONG
A lifetime of creations
SEMICOLON PROJECT
The Lancaster Semicolon Project is an on-going campaign founded by a group of students in Lancaster University, in support of the American nonprofit organisation known as ‘Project Semicolon'.
Data has shown that twenty-seven per cent of students in higher education have reported having mental health issues, with over 1,300 students committing suicide in the past ten years. We believe that suicide is preventable, and everyone can help make valuable contributions to save lives.
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT
“It was suggested to me that getting in a relationship may cure my mental illness”, one of the anonymous respondents shockingly told us.
Mental health is increasingly being brought into conversation in mainstream social media, as an effort of ‘breaking the stigma’ surrounding its discourse within the public sphere. Alongside this newfound attention aimed towards it, there is also an attempt to educate people on it, usually through targeting the different parts of society where issues are more prevalent; one of the latter is manifested within young adults between the ages of 18 to 25, with data showing that 27% of students in higher education reported having mental health issues (Aronin and Smith, 2016).
