{"id":154,"date":"2021-10-17T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2021-10-19T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T02:13:51","slug":"brittany-davis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/archived-interviews\/brittany-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“In the last year of my business degree, my mom had a heart attack, and I asked her if there was anything she wished she had done. She always wanted to be a sculptor and a painter, so she would have gone back to art school. And I thought, well, I’m at the age where I don’t have a house and kids or anything to worry about, so I quit my job to get my second degree. I ended up taking David\u2019s health psychology class because my mom passed away in 2014… learning about stress, grief and the psychology behind death and loss, I realized there’s no real groundwork for how to cope as a young person who doesn’t fit in the demographic of a small child or an elderly husband or wife with a terminal condition…<\/p>\n

That was the first psychology class I had taken after transferring to UBC, and at the time I was just considering leaving school because it was getting too hard dealing with grief. I decided to stay after being connected to Anita and her lab and their work, seeing how I shouldn’t feel guilty that stress is affecting my life, and understanding how I was never equipped with tools going into the situation… whereas now, if I have a friend whose mom or dad is sick, they ask me, well maybe you could try these types of techniques, these studies show this.<\/p>\n

When my doctor first said, after my mom passed away, ‘I really think you need to see someone because I think you have PTSD,’ and I thought, ‘No I don’t have that’\u2014I had a subconscious stigma toward mental illness. But PTSD doesn’t have to be the result of a military injury. Specifically what Anita studies is stress and relationships; how the people in your circle really affect or help your stress coping mechanisms. No one teaches you even remotely what is beneficial, and what is ok; no one validates your own emotions and sentiments and how you feel….<\/p>\n

This year I wrote the dental entrance exam again. Dental school is kind of a hoop dream. I never really thought I was smart enough to become a dentist, so I went to school for business instead, mostly just assuming I couldn’t get into dental school. Now, because I’ve learned how to better cope with the stresses, it’s like, no, those things might actually be achievable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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