Description

In this episode of Voices of Academia, Emily chats with PhD Research Fellow, Daniel Ranson (@mrdanielranson), who opens up about perfectionism and OCD tendencies that progressively worsened from his undergraduate degree, onwards.

TW: Depression, anxiety, OCD and a suicide attempt.

This episode touches on feeling pressured as a first-generation university student, overactive worrying, the two sides to perfectionism, development of OCD tendencies that impacted life, living with anxiety, depression, overwork, a suicide attempt, seeking professional help including medication and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), medication adjustments, stigma, medication overdose and recovery.

Resources:

• Mindfulness apps: Headspace, Calm, Buddhify
  
  
• Matt Haig books ie. ‘Reasons to stay alive’
  
  
• PhD: Addicted to Research podcast (available on iTunes, Spotify, Acast etc). This is a new initiative created by Society for the Study of Addiction PhD research fellows that is designed to be a 'hand holding' podcast to support people through their PhD and help those applying. General wellbeing support for all stages of the academic journey.
  
• Mental health nursing
  
  

The full transcript of the podcast is available here.

For mental health support, please contact your GP or use the appropriate support for your country at https://checkpointorg.com/global/

Recorded 03/12/2020.

Sound: Mindset by Ketsa is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, available through Free Music Archive.

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