This 2 part series is an anonymous contribution by a member of the AMHC community. Read Part 1 here. * * * I started to think about the future, and it occurred to me that this might not be the … More Long-Distance Relationships and the Tenure-Track Search: Part 2
This 2 part series is an anonymous contribution by a member of the AMHC community. Stay tuned for Part 2 of their story coming soon! * * * On Sunday, August 15, 2010, I packed everything I … More Long-Distance Relationships and the Tenure-Track Search: Part 1
This post was submitted by Yorick Peterse, PhD student at the Max Planck Society. Recently, Yorick collaborated on an article about the mental health of German doctoral researchers. * * * Arguably the biggest challenge in the … More The Stigma on Mental Health Issues
Once again we’ve scoured the web for you, picking the best articles on mental health and academia. Have a suggestion for the next Link Round Up? Drop us a line on twitter or facebook! … More Link Round Up: Academia is bad for our mental health, and how to talk about it
I’ve never seen myself as a sales person. As a scientist, a sales job didn’t seem “academic” enough. And I am terrible at pushing people to do anything. … More When Another Door Opens: Leaving Academia for the Sales World
Even a smashing scholarly success has a complicated history. … More Happy Endings, and What They’re Made Of
We have a great reading list compiled for you this weekend. We have all the bases covered with pieces on post-partum depression and doing a PhD, to learning how to set realistic targets when you are living with depression, from notes on managing uncertainty and perfectionism in academia, to a piece on how academic advisors … More Reading round-up: Post-partum depression & PhD, ECR’s guide to managing perfectionism, advisors responding to trauma and many more
We kick off 2018 with this piece that draws our attention to the psychological toll of being part of certain academic disciplines that involve dealing with violence and trauma at its very core POTENTIAL TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic imagery, violence, sexual abuse I woke up standing in my socks on the fourth-floor … More Sleepwalking with Ghosts: Vicarious Trauma and the Importance of Self-Care
As we get ready for the holidays, we have a guest post by “Mara”, where she discusses the neglected issue of graduate students experiencing hardships and psychological vulnerabilities as a result of being carers to their loved ones. She draws on her experiences to suggest ways in which carers can be more nurturing towards … More Carers need care too: Nurturing yourself this holiday season
This week we have a PhD candidate taking us through her life-changing experience of reckoning with her anxiety, all while being in the midst of a critical point in her candidature. Read more about how she worked through that phase and arrived at some important insights. It was a moment of silence that convinced … More I Can and I Will: Rebuilding an Anxious Mind in Time for Orals
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