Tag: mental health
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A Few Tips for Conferences When You’re Super Anxious All the Time Like Me
Hi, it’s your friendly neighbourhood academic with anxiety here to talk about one of the scariest things in academia: conferences! Unfortunately for many of us, “traditional” academia requires that we make appearances and presentations at conferences (even though they’re expensive…and we don’t always get the financial help needed to attend…and it takes time off from
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On Imposter Syndrome, or What Are We Even Doing?!
With my transfer report coming up within the next month or so, things have been pretty stressful over here. Unfortunately I find myself not having fun poking around things in the lab, but pouring over drafts and corrections and trying to synthesize my transfer report*. So I figured this might be a good time to
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On Getting Through Bad Days, or How I Almost Set My Flat On Fire
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about mental health in academia. I didn’t really expect to write another post in a similar vein so soon, but I had a bad day today. As always, if this sort of content makes you feel uncomfortable, please skip! I don’t mind. I occasionally get hit
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On Mental Health, or How To Breathe During Your PhD
Important note before I start: this post is going to talk about about personal issues and mental health issues, so if you’re not comfortable reading about this, please skip! Don’t worry – I won’t be offended. I’ve been feeling a bit stressed out and anxious lately so I figured this was a good time as
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