#15 - Coping with Mental Health Challenges as a Student or Postdoc Researcher


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May 24 2022 52 mins  

Dr. Wendy Marie Ingram is a molecular biologist, psychiatric epidemiologist and advocate for mental health among academic researchers. She is the Founder and CEO of Dragonfly Mental Health, a nonprofit that develops individualized programs for institutions to address the mental health needs of their researchers. In this conversation, Wendy and I discuss the personal circumstances that led her to found Dragonfly, why researchers are especially prone to poor mental health, the differences between stress, distress, disease, and crisis, resources for students, resources for institutions, and the connection between biology and psychiatric epidemiology.