It’s a huge worry. Luckily, DD has chosen an excellent course at a small uni within an hour of us. She finds big, busy places overwhelming and is very attached to me (which can be really frustrating for both of us!). So she needs the safety net of being able to have the option to pop home whilst still being far enough away to make that an infrequent event and enable her to throw herself into student life proper.
As for the pastoral/MH side, we visited a few unis and the quality and availability of support definitely varied! There was a lot of lip service and posters about ‘mental health matters’ and ‘talking about it’ but in some places didn’t seem to be much in the way of actual tangible services beyond peer support. In lots of the bigger unis it felt like students were just numbers on the roll and a struggling student could easily get lost in that (that was my experience at university too, tbh and it didn’t feel like much had changed). Whereas the smaller unis we visited seemed to have more of a relationship with their students.
Your DD sounds like an independent spirit 
. Good on her, even though obviously it’ll cost you a fortune and worry you silly 
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Well done re Davina! I’ve never done her workouts. I’ve just done w5r1 of the c25k programme, so I’m feeling smug 
. I want to eat something, so I’ll have a big glass of water and see how I feel after that [polishes halo]