Prioritizing Mental-Health in Grad School with Brittany Lindsay UC-CIDE Podcast

Join us this week for a discussion every Grad student should hear! Co-hosts Milan & Anna interview Brittany Lindsay,  a Ph.D. candidate in Experimental Social Psychology at UCalgary. Her research primarily focuses on mental illness and suicide stigma reduction, and she is very active in promoting mental health in the postsecondary setting.

Our conversation with Brittany gives us an important perspective of grad studies from the point of view of someone living through the experience while researching mental health. We discuss ways in which grad students can improve self-care, and what kind of self-destructive behaviors to watch out for, while forming habits that are sustainable over the entire length of our degrees. Brittany also tells us about the importance of taking weekends off, making a work schedule that works for us, and most importantly, allowing ourselves to enjoy this period in our lives, especially nice sunny summertime days.

At some point in the conversation, Brittany mentions a talk given by Ian Campeau, from the musical group formerly known as "A Tribe Called Red" (now called "The Halluci Nation")- please find more information about this past event here: https://ucalgary.ca/news/explore-identity-and-mental-health-two-canadian-artists. 

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