the elephant in the room

World Mental Health Day: Are the NHS doing enough?

2017-10-11 by Elephants Voice

In the last quarter century, since World Mental Health Day was first introduced, mental health has progressed forward so much, stepping away from the stigma and closer towards understanding, respect and awareness. But, is it enough? Though the stigma around mental health is still prominent you can’t ignore how far contemporary society has come. With the help of celebrities many have begun to accept that illness can occur within your head and the illnesses are all serious. Celebrities have been […]

Categories: Feature, Health, opinion, Politics • Tags: 1in4, anxiety, depression, emotions, feeling, feelings, fomo, happy, Health, hospital, mentalhealth, NHS, people, sad, society, suicide, therapy, uk, world, worldmentalhealthday

White terrorists do exist, so why are we ignoring them?

2017-10-06 by Elephants Voice

NEWSFLASH: Terrorists can be white, shock. The label usually reserved exclusively for Muslims is not defined by race or colour as the media seems to understand. A terrorist is a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. Not everyone wearing a hijad – though stereo-typically this is what appears when you type the term into your search engine. Terrorists can believe in any faith and be any ethnicity. This stereotypical image isn’t […]

Categories: Debate, Feature, News, opinion, Politics • Tags: attack, black, bomb, court, crime, dead, federal, gun, hate, hijad, islam, islamaphobia, lasvegas, law, nevada, punish, race, racehate, racism, religion, shooting, terroist, terrorattack, terrorism, white

Marrying yourself: self-love or social suicide?

2017-10-04 by Elephants Voice

You can rub your own feet. You can scratch your own itch. You can even satisfy yourself. Not really the same though is it? Not the same as waking up next to another warm body rather than a ‘boyfriend pillow’. Trusty and dependable as he is. Self-love and acceptance is key to a happy life, but you shouldn’t need a ring to cement that – you just need to know. Holding a ceremony and inviting guests to watch you ‘love […]

Categories: Debate, Feature, feminism, opinion • Tags: breakup, cheating, feminism, feminist, love, marriage, relationship, sad, selflove

Rule #1, never make yourself #2

2017-09-20 by Elephants Voice

We all have days when we look in the mirror and think oh god. How have I allowed myself to look like this? When did I put on six pounds? Where is my life going? What the hell is my skin? We all have sometimes wished we started out diet months ago or changed our hairstyle before a big day. We’re human and we are flawed. Sometimes we gain weight and sometimes we lose it. Sometimes we laugh at ourselves but at other times we […]

Categories: Advice, CONFIDENCE, Feature, opinion • Tags: cheating, diet, fat, happy, love, relaxed, self, selfacceptance, senseofself, therapy, weightgain

Dear freshers,

2017-09-13 by Elephants Voice

How excited are you? Like so totally pumped? Good, you should be. University is an incredible experience and if you speak to any twenty-something graduate they will weep and tell their own freshers stories about clubs that aren’t even a thing anymore. It’s fantastic, you meet people, join societies (well, the majority of people don’t, students are lazy what can I say?), drink too much and some people cheat on their boyfriend. Hell, a lot of people cheat on their significant others. Note to everyone: don’t be that person. […]

Categories: Advice, Feature, opinion, Personal • Tags: cheating, drunk, fresher, freshers, graduate, homesick, life, lonely, love, movingaway, nightout, photo, selfie, time, uni, university

#10 Chats with Charlie

2017-09-10 by Elephants Voice

Three Q’s are answered every week so if yours isn’t loaded this week it will be next – but answers left to wait will be sent via personal message ASAP. Just loaded online the following week. This is to keep the segment short and snappy but also ensure that those wanting help get it ASAP. To enhance this feature and get even more of you sending in questions I’ve also made an anonymous link (via good old Ask.fm) for anyone and everyone to […]

Categories: Advice, AGONY AUNT, Feature, opinion • Tags: agony, agonyaunt, aunt, bestfriend, boyfriend, consent, desire, dishonesty, facebook, fallout, friends, gay, girlfriend, hetrosexual, instagram, lesbian, liar, lying, needs, photo, problempage, problems, sex, sexual, sexualattraction, wants

The dreaded ‘F’ word.

2017-09-06 by Elephants Voice

Nowadays saying that word is like saying ‘Voldemort’ in front of a group of Harry Potter fans. You just don’t do it. Not unless you want a load of screaming replies and looks that can only mean: “What were you thinking?”. That’s what feminism in 2017 faces. Decades after we won the right to vote, something we never should’ve had to fight for, and we are still in this position.Before the war women were not allowed to vote but new laws […]

Categories: feminism, News, Personal • Tags: argument, equal, equalrights, feminism, liberated, lifestyle, march, men, opinionpiece, protest, rights, women

#9 Chats with Charlie

2017-09-03 by Elephants Voice

This week the segment experienced a high number of questions via the AskFM link, thank you all for being so eager and sending so many in! Greatly appreciated and the segment is growing in readers every single week. I’m really struggling with forgiving someone for the shit they’ve done to me, they’ve apologised but continue to do the same things everyday. Any advice? People’s behaviours can be one of two things: their natural personality trait or them reacting to something. […]

Categories: Advice, AGONY AUNT, Feature, opinion • Tags: Advice, agony, agonyaunt, anxiety, bleeding, cheating, depression, emotions, help, hormones, period, periods, problempage, problems, relationship, relationships, selfhelp, struggling

Therapy: Are self-help books the new portable-pocket-professionals?

2017-08-29 by Elephants Voice

What happens when the person you turn to isn’t there anymore? You crumble. That shoulder to lean on has disappeared and you fall flat on your sad little face. Who do you turn to? A paid professional or cheap book? The ever growing market of self-help books can only support you, right? Books can’t pack up their bags and leave, they can’t decline calls or air you. They’re just fucking books after all. Are self-help books the new portable-pocket-professionals? Self-love is the best […]

Categories: Advice, Feature, Health • Tags: awareness, books, brain, cbt, emotional, emotions, Health, mentalhealth, science, selfhelp, therapy

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