I've fought to protect my mental health at Cambridge, but it feels like no one is listening
CW:// This article includes detailed mentions of mental health difficulties and the university’s return policy, alongside brief mentions of racial harassment, transphobia and homophobia. The end of Michaelmas 2020 and my first term at Cambridge complete. It hadn’t been the first term I had been expecting by any means: Covid having robbed me of a proper freshers experience, and my friendship group limited to the people I had randomly been accommodated with. Whilst Covid restrictions allowed it, a friend visited for a day trip in the week after term had finished. His reaction to the city ...