Understanding your Emotions - Exam Stress

Why is exam stress so difficult?In this bonus episode of understanding emotions, we tackle exam stress. Many healthcare professionals have to deal with exams for training throughout their careers, bringing up unique challenges and emotions.  Between them Dr Zaid al-Najjar, Ruth Deighton and Simon Lyne have decades of experience treating mental health professionals and have come together to pool their experience of treating healthcare workers into this podcast. They have built a framework for practitioners to understand and process complex emotions and worries in their job and personal lives.This episode  of the Understanding your Emotions podcast covers exam stress.We hope you enjoy this series and take something away that can help your wellbeing.If you are struggling as a healthcare worker in England or Scotland, please get in touch with NHS Practitioner Health, we help health and care workers confidentially and for free. We especially help healthcare workers who have difficulties accessing confidential support elsewhere.NHS Practitioner Health is a mental health and addiction service for health and care professionals who are unable to access confidential treatment from local services. Register with us today. Stay Connected: Instagram: @nhs_prachealthThreads: @nhs_prachealthLinkedIn: NHS Practitioner Health Facebook: NHS Practitioner HealthBluesky: @nhsprachealth