Tag: Mental health
Mental health in academia: overworked and stressed
I first knew that something was wrong when I went from joking with friends that I would rather jump in front of a truck than work on my thesis to genuinely thinking “is that an option here?”
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Online bullying: won’t somebody think of the children?
Get your pitchforks, light up those torches and pack your bags kids cause apparently there’s a bandwagon to jump on and it’s called Condemning Online Bullying.
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We can be happy
About 12 months ago I lay awake. It was night time so I shouldn’t have been awake. But I was awake. And I didn’t know why. I thought I must’ve been stressed about something. So I started cycling through the Rolodex of things going on in my life.
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Shake it off
One of the most significant symptoms of my anxiety disorder is that I am quick to worry, often about things that don’t end up being a big deal.
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Daily dosing
Imagine that I have asthma. Imagine that I was diagnosed about two years ago, and since then I’ve been using an inhaler everyday and though my life probably isn’t totally awesome all the time, I’m heaps healthier than when I was first diagnosed, which makes me happier, and more fun, and better at my job.
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Anxious Much?
This anxiety bullshit is bullshit. We all experience it in one form or other. I’m sure there are fabulous evolutionary reasons for it. Saber-tooth tigers and such.
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What we talk about when we talk about mental health
Part one of a series on Mental Health In New Zealand we aren’t very good at talking about mental illness. Or mental health.
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