Tag: stress
Are You Stressed Yet?: Effecting Change in Academia
In this post I reflect the ways in which we normalise and internalise potentially harmful levels of stress in academia, and how many of us are led to believe that if we’re not stressed we’re not doing our job right.
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When Stress Became Real
An anonymous academic recounts their encounters with stress and anxiety towards the end of their PhD.
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Dark Thoughts: Why Mental Illness Is on the Rise in Academia
6 March 2014, The Guardian Higher Education Network. I was invited to comment on academia and mental health for this article.
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OCD vs. PhD: A Life in Two Halves
An anonymous contributor shares the positives and negatives of working in academia with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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An Anxious Mind
Reflections on anxiety, on its relationship with academia, and why we need to learn to value ourselves.
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