Postgrad stress is real, it’s common, and it’s not a sign that you’re failing. It’s a sign that you’re doing something genuinely difficult. A 2026 paper by Maiden & Stewart in the American Journal of Medicine and Health Studies looked at structured wellness interventions among doctoral nursing students and found that targeted, consistent wellbeing practices…
Postgrad stress is real, it’s widespread, and it’s not a sign that you’re failing. If you’re currently staring at a chapter that won’t come together, sleeping badly, or quietly wondering whether you’re cut out for this, you’re not alone. Marshall et al., in their 2026 exploratory case study published in Frontiers in Education, found that…
Managing PhD stress is one of those things everyone acknowledges and almost nobody teaches you how to actually do. You get a handbook about thesis formatting. You get a reading list. Nobody hands you a guide for the Tuesday afternoon when you’re staring at your methodology chapter and genuinely cannot remember why you thought this…
