13 Feb, 2019
U is for University
U is for university.
[TW for mentions of: self harm, overdoses, eating problems, suicide]
My uni years should have been the best time of my life. An abundance of new people, new experiences, new places, new everything - university is the climactic point of your late teens and early 20s. Three years, sometimes four, of fun and fiesta.
But it wasn’t.
Struggling with mental illness, but desperate to make friends, I tried to hide my problems as best I could in my first year of study, but mainly