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Does the PhD hurt mental health, how is it measured, is it selection? A little of all three

Does the PhD hurt mental health, how is it measured, is it selection? A little of all three

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scott cunningham
Aug 12, 2024
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Back in 2021, I wrote a substack called “Not Waving but Drowning” about the mental health struggles of PhD students. It was a substack discussing two, at that time, recent descriptive papers. The first was a meta-analysis of 29 studies coauthored by 12 people (including me) in Nature: Human Behavior. The other was about the mental health struggles of…

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