Adapting to Covid-19

How did our life change in the past year. Where did we start & where are we headed? How to create space for us & others.

Show Notes

"Social media is detrimental for mental health" is a phrase that we very frequently hear. Nevertheless, social media has recently proven its vital positive impact by strengthening our social connectedness despite social distancing. 
 
In this first episode, we tackle the subject of mental health during graduate studies. How was it different during the pandemic? To obtain insight into this theme, we had the pleasure of inviting two inspiring students. The conversation we had were even more!  

We covered immigration, psychedelics, social media among many other topics. Interested in taking part of this discussion? Join our guests, Elias Jabbour, M.Sc. a mental health researcher at McGill University and Manesh Girn, M.Sc., Ph.D candidate in neuroscience at McGill University as well as a psychedelic clinical research advisor and popular science content creator. 

What is Master Your PhD?

To an outsider, the world of academia seems utopian, the ivory tower, and definitely a place less stressful than the « real world » where the rest of us live and work.

Statistics show that 1 out of every 5 students or 20 per cent of the student population, at one time or another, experience some form of mental health illness, whether it be stress related, depression, anxiety or what have you. One thing for sure, if you do suffer, you are not alone. And more importantly, there are places where you can find people ready to listen. People ready to share.

Which brings us back to our Podcast and Nurau.

Nurau is a new-age platform that deals exclusively with mental health information and support, our underlying mission is to de-stigmatize the negative attitudes associated with mental health. So people who suffer and those around them can understand that mental illness is like any other physical illness, in that it can afflict anyone at any age and from every walk of life.

Partnered with our friends over at the les Fonds National de Recherche, our Podcasts will feature interviews with people like us- who will share intimate details of how they dealt with their different mental health issues. And hopefully they will shed light on a topic that up to now has been kept in the dark because of shame and ignorance.