Phd stress: why should you not ignore the signs

Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2018 in Blog, PhD Writing Services | 0 comments

It is a known fact that PhD causes stress and is a common symptom to find amongst the scholars. Stress brings with it some physiological side effects and if they are ignored they would not just disturb your output in your PhD but your life beyond it would also suffer.

Stress, primarily is related to anything in life is a warning sign that things are not the way they should be and if neglected and suppressed under pressure, by force, things would just become worse and not let you cope up with life and its challenges.

As a PhD scholar, there are certain signs you shouldn’t ignore so that you are able to gauge and handle stress if it is disturbing your life in any way:

• A perpetual feeling that you are incapable of working to your potential

• An overwhelming feeling with the demands of the work and deadlines

• A feeling that you haven’t performed to the best of your ability and you are incapable to focus and concentrate

• A feeling of not having control over yourself

• Finding easy things also difficult and challenging in comparison to your capacity

• A feeling of fear and hopelessness

• Utmost physical and mental exhaustion

If you have any of the above mentioned symptoms and feel that by getting more systematic and working out things you will be able to deal with the problem then you haven’t addressed the problem at the fundamental level.

As a PhD scholar and the pressure from your supervisor, you would have a lot of pressure on you head and a lot of work to do, and with that the most difficult thing to do is to slow down but remember, it is also the most important thing to do. You must begin with giving time to yourself and trying to simplify what you are trying to do. At the onset, reduce the number of things that you are working upon simultaneously. This can be done by prioritising and breaking down your different tasks into simpler steps and go on at a pace that you can manage and handle.

This isn’t all , when things go wrong you must be able to manage your reaction so that you don’t take a professional failure as a personal failure. On the contrary, engage with the problem and try to find a creative solution to the problem as “things going wrong” is inevitable in research and your success and failure is determined by your reaction to the success or failure.

So next time, you have such feelings of distress and anxiety which seems uncontrollable, go to the root level and handle the stress problem, rather than living with it.