Mental health

concept · in 2 sources (2017–2018)

Psychological wellbeing and its disorders; Ali says it is a scientific topic for medicine applicants.

Sources by year: 2017: 1 · 2018: 1

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2018-02-14 · Monthly Favourites #1 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: The live Reasons to be Cheerful episode Ali attended was on mental health, with the comedian Ruby Wax, who has written a book about mindfulness. — 00:04:29

2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says mental health is definitely scientific: psychiatry is a medical specialty with a big scientific basis, and Oxbridge no longer looks down on it, as it maybe did 20 years ago. — 00:07:39
- Ali advises applicants who mention schizophrenia, depression or anxiety in their personal statement to be ready for scientific questions about it. — 00:08:25
- Ali advises applicants who sense interviewers discriminating against them for mentioning mental health to raise it afterwards through the appeals or complaints process, not in the interview. — 00:09:07
- Ali says mental health at Oxford and Cambridge is particularly in the limelight because of higher rates of mental health problems and suicide attempts at such high-achieving institutions. — 00:09:07
- Ali says most Cambridge and Oxford colleges he knows are good at dealing with mental health, and people he knows with mental health issues found support there, so Oxbridge and mental health are not incompatible. — 00:09:07