tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406149869945555744.post8900180721474698009..comments2018-04-16T11:22:37.071-07:00Comments on How To Leave Academia: Academia: No pain, no gain? Jet's story of illness, diagnosis and the
road to recoveryLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903428524066550435noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406149869945555744.post-979203694831984392013-03-15T17:52:54.000-07:002013-03-15T17:52:54.000-07:00Thank you Jet for this post. I'd agree since w...Thank you Jet for this post. I'd agree since we do need to reject this mantra of "No pain, no gain". I didn't suffer from either Currer's, or Lauren's or your health problems but I had severe migraines and ground my teeth down badly. I didn't realise how badly until my dentist jokingly asked me "You're doing a PhD aren't you?". I was stunned at this question and responded with the question why did he asked. He told me that he knew who was doing a PhD since their teeth were severe ground down, often badly chipped, and they risked breaking their own back molars with the stress of grinding their teeth at night. He said that he thought that it was completely crazy since we were clearly destroying our bodies...for what purpose. Good question.<br><br>The grinding of teeth that my dentist saw in the patients who attended his practice, which is next to two universities which have PhD programmes demonstrates that PhD students are internalising their stresses and sacrificing their teeth, their health. ...Once you've ground your teeth down...that's it. So, his solution? Well, he was just a dentist who told me that he suggested that all of us get a mouth guard to sleep at night, find more ways to get rid of the stresses of the progamme, and perhaps even rethink what we're doing our lives since losing our teeth for something such a PhD might not be worth it.antheahttp://www.senseworlds.com/bewilderness/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406149869945555744.post-53172278367639086852013-03-16T10:00:27.000-07:002013-03-16T10:00:27.000-07:00Thanks for your comment Anthea. I haven't adde...Thanks for your comment Anthea. I haven't added that I was also a teeth grinder! The stresses of the PhD experience manifest in all sort of bad ways. Last May sometime I also had to have the bacl moler tooth removed because it had such a bad crack in it there wasn't much more that could be done (after a longer history of problems with that tooth). I used the guard for a while which does help, but I must have not stuck with it consistently. Happy to say there are no signs of grinding now!Jetnoreply@blogger.com