and had always relished in the comfort and security of home, moving almost four hours away to live with complete strangers was always going to be a challenge.
Watching this year’s students head to university for the first time, that feeling of emotional unease came flooding back to me. At a time in life when thousands rely upon everything going according to plan, today’s young people are being forced to reckon with a constantly changing agenda – fromto having their lectures moved online.
“I’m nervous about the challenging academic work on top of the mental strain of moving away into a high-risk city” Rosie*, 20, who is in her second year studying English, says the whole experience has been “very confusing”.
Here's an expressionist portrait of what restrictions and removal of freedoms do for students mentalhealth