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This site hosts reports, research and campaigns relating to student mental health. It is presented as a mostly open resource for members. The USI Mental Health programme is proud to be supported and funded by the Health Service Executive National Office for Suicide Prevention.
Connecting Minds Podcast

We all have a mental health. We all need to take care of ourselves.
USI works with your SU to discover better ways of coping with the strain of student life.
Things to help combat stress/anxiety in the run up to exam time
Exams can be stressful, but so can the time immediately before exams, when we start to feel the pressure of performing build up. If we can set some good habits in motion, it will help keep stress from becoming overwhelming, and while good self-care won’t cure a mental illness, it can help us be in […]
Motivation
Let’s face it – virtually nobody actually likes studying. We would rather do literally anything else. That’s why the time just before exams is when our rooms or houses have never looked tidier. Procrastination takes over, and we find multiple other things to fill our time instead of studying. Sometimes we can even convince ourselves […]
Mindfulness during exam time
Mindfulness has become a bit of a buzzword in recent years. It often conjures up a picture of someone sitting still, legs crossed, deep in meditation. However, there is much more to mindfulness than that, and mindfulness can be included in our lives in many ways. The key thing to mindfulness is to find some […]