One in four students at LSBU are being diagnosed with a mental health problem, reveals Student Care Manager Ennie. According to the LSBU Mental Health statistics, numbers of struggling students are rising. Ennie said; “We try our best to support students with a wide variety of difficulties.”
Most of the help is targeted at students who are living at LSBU accommodation with well-being residential managers providing a 24–hour service. Vicky Dunn, one of two of the residential managers at the McLaren house, said: “We are trying to help students as much as we can, as depression is a major worry for all of us looking after the students at McLaren.”
With only support accessible during Monday- Friday from 9-5 for students who are not staying in the residential homes provided by LSBU, this creates a disadvantage for those students to access the support that they might need. Catherine, a second-year student at LSBU, said: “I’ve heard about the services LSBU provide, but I don’t think the university is doing the best that they can.”