We sat down with Milo, a 24-year-old creative who talks about his journey so far and how he maintains a good mental state as a freelancer.  "My names Milo, Im 24 years old and I'm a freelance artist, musician and model. So for me, the first time I noticed it was straight out of school. I think a lot of people knew what they wanted to do or were going straight to University. I took a gap foundation year and moved to Brighton. I had a foundation but maybe got in with the wrong crowd and started doing a...

Hello, I’m Byron, I’m twenty-three and I’m the Co-founder of Grey Matter. If I’m completely honest, I don’t write much… So why should you take two minutes out of your day to read this? Four years ago I took two minutes out of my day to send an email that led to a meeting which changed my life. At the time, I was in a depressed state, and started having suicidal thoughts every day, I felt lost in life and had lost all direction after coming out of a bad breakup. Up until this point in my life, I had...

Grace Williams is a Third Year Psychology student studying at the University of Bristol. She has faced struggles with anxiety and kindly shared her story with the hope that it will help anyone facing similar struggles. "It was only when I had such severe physical anxiety symptoms that I nearly called an ambulance for myself, that I realized I should probably go to the doctors about it. I genuinely thought I had a heart problem because of the intensity of chest pain I was feeling. I even had numbness in my arms and hands and heart palpitations. If you google...

  We’ve recently been fortunate enough to interview 26 year old singer-songwriter Scott Quinn. From dealing with depression at 18 to playing the BBC Introducing stage at Reading and Leeds Festival a few years later, Scott has had an interesting journey so far and learnt how to become aware and overcome his mental struggles within the music industry. “Mental health in my life has been quite prominent in many different ways. But I wasn’t really aware of it until I was about 18 and first went to university. This is one of the main topics in my life, how we...