Question I want to ask in terms of professionalization: How is it possible to try and change the entire way the discipline (/academia in general) treats its graduate students and non-tenured faculty in terms of addressing mental illness?
Okay, maybe that isn't a professionalization question so much as a personal one.
How do I stay interested in a subject I know I love but I am starting to hate because grad school is sucking my soul?
Maybe I should go with what else we can do besides academia?
...I want to ask a bunch of things but I am going to get mad if I hear the stupid "well suck it up because it is grad school" response again. There is "sucking it up" and there is blatant ignoring or dismissal of real problems that grad school exacerbates dramatically, with no real attempt to address or support students with those issues.
...Perhaps I should ask about leaves of absence. Since I'm debating that.
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