I’d whisper to my student self: you are not alone

Reay, Dave

doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05080-6

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08 May 2018

I’d whisper to my student self: you are not alone

Twenty years on, Dave Reay speaks out about the depression that almost sunk his PhD, and the lifelines that saved him.

Dave Reay⁰

Dave Reay
1. Dave Reay is professor of carbon management and education, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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A black dog. That’s how Winston Churchill described depression. A dark companion that lies quiet in the good times and is your master in the bad. Its arrival is hard to predict, just as its departure seems impossible until it has happened. Depression is as varied as the people who experience it, as shifting in form as a murmuration. Yet its flavour is unmistakable.

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Nature 557, 160-161 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05080-6

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