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Researching from the Heart đź’— - by mrinank

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TL;DR Mental health amongst PhD students is notoriously bad. In this post, I’ll talk about my own experiences and offer concrete, practical suggestions for bringing more joy, harmony, and peace into the research process by shifting how we view the research process. Okay, so, last August, I took a whole month away from my PhD. As a (recovering) compulsive planner, the plan was to have no plan, so I flew to Portugal and just did what felt good. And, as you might imagine, after a month of eating (vegan) pastel de natas, walking round Lisbon aimlessly, and reading solely for the joy of reading rather than for “progress”, I felt pretty relaxed. Peaceful, even. Open-hearted. Warm. I felt pretty great. Awesome, I thought, holidays are great. But when the first day back rolled around, literally within minutes, it all came back. Anxiety. Stress. Fatigue. Ugh. My journals from those days started at“i’m pretty tired … there’s aversion and fear”, progressed to “there’s lots of fear … my body was h

TL;DR Mental health amongst PhD students is notoriously bad. In this post, I’ll talk about my own experiences and offer concrete, practical suggestions for bringing more joy, harmony, and peace into the research process by shifting how we view the research process. Okay, so, last August, I took a whole month away from my PhD. As a (recovering) compulsive planner, the plan was to have no plan, so I flew to Portugal and just did what felt good. And, as you might imagine, after a month of eating (vegan) pastel de natas, walking round Lisbon aimlessly, and reading solely for the joy of reading…

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