Whilst I'm on #introductions, I'm also an author. Never thought I'd say that, but here we are.

I wrote "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD:A Survival Guide" because I struggled during my own PhD. I felt worthless and experienced a range of emotions, feeling suicidal at times, and wanting to quit. So I decided I wanted to create a resource for others that might be struggling.

You can buy/read it here:link.springer.com/book/10.1007. #AcademicChatter #PhD #PhDProgram

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@Zjayres Good topic there. Not that I read your book, but the topic of emotional health vs. academic career (especially at its start) deserves serious analyses and work. Much more than a usual PhD candidate encounters in their (ab)normal life. Though, even if your book would help many people (as I hope), this type of literature probably won’t be read by the target audience without even more effort. These people typically have no clue that they have all these relevant issues in their life until it’s too late already. So if this should become useful, it needs to be pushed down the throats of people entering the hamster wheel during their first year(s). But that would require their PhD. supervisor to be more enlightened than they typically are today and/or their university HR depts. to overrule the said supervisors and hand these kind of books earlier, etc. etc.

Either way, great topic and a difficult task . 👍 🤞

@FailForward I'm hopeful that the message is getting out there. 34k downloads of the book in 2 months!

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