What Can Students Do to Improve Their Mental Health?

Опубликовано: 23 Февраль 2026
на канале: Dr Ally Jaffee
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⏳ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Dr Dominique Thompson’s work on student wellbeing
5:37 Trends in student health
7:02 What are the most common mental health problems amongst students?
8:50 Treatments for student mental health
10:25 Balancing mental health stigma and resources
12:10 Dealing with peer pressure in university
14:23 Why are so many students becoming T total?
17:40 Preventing student mental health issues
20:58 Is loneliness a problem amongst university students?
24:05 Social prescriptions for university students
27:40 Problems for University of Bristol students
30:58 How to Grown Grown Up by Dr Dominique Thompson
33:34 Student suicide
38:08 What to do when you’re not comfortable with your university housemates
40:47 Does the media negatively portray university mental health services?
43:09 Best practices to improve student mental health
46:36 Do students talk to their tutors about mental health issues?

Join us for an essential conversation about student mental health! In this video, I sit down with Dr. Dom Thompson, an award-winning GP and wellbeing consultant, to explore practical ways students can prioritise their health and mental wellbeing.

Discover the common issues amongst student mental health, mental health treatments for university students and how to prevent mental health struggles at university. We discuss how deal with common issues for university students, such as loneliness, housing issues and peer pressure.

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👩🏽‍⚕️ Who am I?
Dr Ally Jaffee is a multi-award-winning Psychiatry resident doctor and mental health speaker in London, UK. She is a huge advocate for greater nutrition and lifestyle medicine education within healthcare training and is the co-founder for the CIC, Nutritank. She is passionate about food & mood and doctor’s mental health, talking openly about her lived experience of Depression & Anxiety across her socials. Dr Ally is also a coach and a trustee for the Youth Mental Health grant-giving charity, Chimo Trust.