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Questions tagged [health]

On physical and psychological health issues affecting academics and researchers, including impact of illness on research output or grades, health-related side effects of the academic lifestyle, health insurance for those employed in academia, etc. Use 'medicine', not 'health-issues', for questions on health and medicine as an academic discipline or field of study.

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Is it unprofessional to bring up a personal / medical issue during the PhD viva?

When I submitted my PhD, I was newly pregnant. For context, I'm 34, and my husband and I had been trying to conceive for quite some time, so we were extremely excited. At around ten weeks, a sonographer explained that I'd had a "silent miscarriage",…
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Telling my supervisor about my medical condition

I am a graduate student and I am more than half way through with my thesis. I was diagnosed with epilepsy 3 years ago, and in order to control my seizures I take Depakote. Now my seizures are under control, but the medicine has side effects, which…
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Should an advisor care if their student becomes overweight?

So your student is becoming overweight: does this negatively impact your research group in some way? Should an advisor care?
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Mental Health and Reading Papers

I am a first year PhD student, and since starting, I’ve had worsening mental health problems which I have tried to deal with to no avail. I ended up failing quite a few things in the second term earlier this year and am on a very very fine ledge…
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Learning Disabled Students and Untenable Instructor Workloads

I am an instructor at a community college in California. On occasion, a student with a documented learning disability will sign up for one of my courses. I do my best to provide them the additional care required with the aim of providing an…
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Words to avoid when talking to a blind student

I am currently supervising a visually impaired student. I noticed that quite often I use phrases such as "from X, we can see that Y" or ask the student to "read paper X" or "you need to look at your maximization problem", etc.. Once the sentence…
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What can be done to improve mental health in academia: more research into mental health of academics or better preventative measures?

I am speaking from my experiences with mental health in academia: After being a grad student and a postdoc for several years, I developed severe mental health issues (after being completely healthy in my youth, as far as I can tell). My friends…
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How To Professionally Address A Mental Breakdown

I’ve been fairly strong throughout Covid, able to push myself to work every day (6-7 days x week) because my thesis project has been somewhat compromised by Covid that this is my unfortunate reality. However, we have just entered our country’s third…
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Handling wasted time

I'm 27 years old, currently doing a Master's course in eletrical engineering in Germany. I have a problem with my mindset having to do with my past. When I was 16 I was strongly addicted and smoked weed every day. After finishing school I got…
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Have there been famous/documented cases where people die from working too hard in the lab?

Have there been famous/documented cases where people die from working too hard in the lab, similar to this and this in finance/marketing?
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Asking for Modifications to Letter of Accommodation for Disabilities

As a student who already filed for accommodations in their prospective university, if mid semester one needs to make updates to the accommodations what is the standard procedure to go about doing so in general? For example, would new documentation…
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PhD student target of crazy department head

I got behind in my program because of illness. My university says it's ok for me to have extra time, but the department head of my program doesn't like this because he thinks all students must get a certain time. He wants to cut my funding, which…
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The unreasonable effectiveness of physical exercise for post graduate student?

I am a graduate student who is currently doing a lot of research works. I understand that academia is a stressful place and it is normal to feel unmotivated and depressed. Recently, I have incorporate a 25 minutes uphill jogging into my daily…
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My teachers treat me differenly b/c I have a mental illness. I don't know how to confront them

Lately, ever since I got back from the hospital, my teachers have been treating me much differently from the other students, and have been coming off as condescending to me. It has gotten so bad that some of my peers have been noticing confronting…
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How is chamomile tea different from other herbal teas in terms of its effects and properties?

How is chamomile tea different from other herbal teas in terms of its effects and properties?
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