Completely overwhelmed due to politics and arrogant academics I am still within the first five years of my PhD in the social sciences, and trying to navigate my way through academia. Unfortunately the politics of the place I work is really getting to me. To make things worse, there are other early career academics who are arrogant and look down on my new area of research  interest, and the  people I want to align myself with (research wise).All this is making me feel extremely insecure, and stressed. How do I cope with all this?