As a core component of your mental health, it is vital that you are aware of your own mental and social well-being. As the World Health Organisation note, having good mental health is a lot more than not having a disease or not being able to do things on a day-to-day basis. It is core component of our overall health and while we may be going about our days without giving well-being much thought, it could be making us less productive, less engaged and generally less happy about things.

On top of this, we quite often think about well-being in relation to others. It can be easier to notice the impact of things, such as money worries, loneliness, am unhealthy lifestyle or a general change or environment, in others. But how often have you thought about your own mental health? Have you thought about the things in your life that can impact you and what you can do to make changes?

And this can be at the core of the issue as many of us are not aware of how things are really impacting our well-being. And therefore, it is so important for us to know how we can handle these issues when they happen to us and that we are aware of the warning signs that our mental and social well-being is being negatively impacted, especially during your move to higher education.