2. How to deal with anxiety and imposter feelings?

Mental Health Matters

Giovanna is a PhD student at KU Leuven. During her PhD, she started to have anxiety attacks due to imposter feelings: “At the beginning they were quite sporadic, but the more I went towards my preliminary defence, the more this anxiety increased to the level where I really started waking up in the middle of the night, not being able to sleep.” Robyn and Pieter-Jan talk to her about what helped her in overcoming these feelings and how you can take a step back and see things from a different perspective.