{"id":526,"date":"2016-06-07T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2016-06-08T22:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T22:12:40","slug":"mental-health-issues-in-academia-a-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/mental-health-issues-in-academia-a-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Issues in Academia &#8211; a Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have become aware of an amazing initiative taking place that aims to bring light to the struggles of PhD students suffering from mental health issues during their\u00a0studies through\u00a0a documentary. If you or anyone you know might be interested in this, please see the advertisement below for more information. We look forward to seeing the finished piece and partaking in the much needed dialogue that it will bring to this topic.<img data-attachment-id=\"527\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/mental-health-issues-in-academia-a-documentary\/thumbnail_mental-health-pic\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/labmosphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thumbnail_Mental-Health-Pic.jpg?fit=822%2C595&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"822,595\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"thumbnail_Mental Health Pic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/labmosphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thumbnail_Mental-Health-Pic.jpg?fit=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/labmosphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thumbnail_Mental-Health-Pic.jpg?fit=620%2C449&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-527\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/labmosphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thumbnail_Mental-Health-Pic.jpg?resize=300%2C217&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"thumbnail_Mental Health Pic\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/labmosphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thumbnail_Mental-Health-Pic.jpg?resize=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/labmosphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thumbnail_Mental-Health-Pic.jpg?resize=768%2C556&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/labmosphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thumbnail_Mental-Health-Pic.jpg?resize=525%2C380&amp;ssl=1 525w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/labmosphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thumbnail_Mental-Health-Pic.jpg?w=822&amp;ssl=1 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have become aware of an amazing initiative taking place that aims to bring light to the struggles of PhD students suffering from mental health issues during their\u00a0studies through\u00a0a documentary. If you or anyone you know might be interested in this, please see the advertisement below for more information. We look forward to seeing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/07\/mental-health-issues-in-academia-a-documentary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mental Health Issues in Academia &#8211; a Documentary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,45],"tags":[],"coauthors":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7z5Ki-8u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":453,"url":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/01\/mental-health-in-academic-research-a-systematic-problem\/","url_meta":{"origin":526,"position":0},"title":"Mental Health in Academic Research &#8211; A Systematic Problem","date":"June 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"In recent years, a crisis has been building in academia,\" says this post on Polygeia. 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