05/15/2018
Academia is a stressful setting. As the summer semester ramps up make sure to check out Nature's collection on science careers and mental health. You can always reach out to PWS if you need someone to talk to!
Articles in the collection include:
- What to do to improve postgraduate mental health
- I’d whisper to my student self: you are not alone
- How to handle the dark days of depression
- Feeling overwhelmed by academia? You are not alone
- Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health
- Mental health: Caught in a trap
- Graduate survey: A love–hurt relationship
- Psychology: Faking it
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Collection home Intro:
Science’s hyper-competitive environment and its ‘publish or perish’ culture can breed anxiety and depression. Nature's latest global graduate survey, published in October 2017, showed 12% of all respondents had sought help for anxiety or depression caused by their PhD studies. And an international study published in Nature Biotechnology in March 2018 provided compelling evidence of a mental health crisis in graduate education with nearly 40% of respondents showing signs of moderate to severe depression. Our online resource aims to highlight this important issue and provides support and advice, not only to scientists struggling with poor mental health but also their colleagues, mentors, and supervisors.
This collection offers advice from researchers with personal experience of poor mental health and links to relevant studies. This includes Nature's 2017 PhD survey, which showed 12% had sought help for anxiety caused by their studies.
