Thoughts of a Psychology Student

If I am correct, you should be revising. But yet you are procrastinating, by not only scrolling through social media feeds, but by clicking on my blogpost link. And i'm glad you did. Because I'm about to recommend you watch a particular documentary... think of it as another revision break. The documentary in question is called " The Stranger on the Bridge " (hence the blog post title...) and if i'm honest, I only watched it because I'd seen Steph + Dom and Leon + June react to it on Gogglebox, which may well be the best show on TV to date (besides the actual documentary of course)... The programme is a depiction of a true story. It documents Jonny Benjamin's quest to find the man who talked him out of jumping off waterloo bridge in 2008 in a suicide attempt. And inevitably, this emotionally charged, moving documentary made me cry enough to want to write a blog post on it. Without giving away too much, the beginning of the documentary shows Jonny ...

Disclaimer: I am not a political expert. I am a student. And the following post is my opinion. After trying and failing to stay up last night to watch the polls come in on BBC news, I woke up this morning and, like so many others, was pretty stunned by the results of yesterday's election. Contrary to predictions, and claims that this was going to be the closest election in history, one hour ago, the Conservatives were confirmed to have achieved a majority in parliament. Not only has David Cameron won a second term as Prime Minister, but Nigel Farage, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband have also resigned, indicating the scale of defeat that is being felt in their respective parties... (not that I'm remotely bothered that UKIP failed to influence most of the UK...) So I suppose now the focus turns to Cameron, and his party, and what we can all expect in the next 5 years. I am lucky enough to have been brought up in an environment where I have never experienced poverty, or been ...