Always analyze when you are refreshed like early in the morning after a shower and breakfast. Surround yourself with a peaceful space, If you start to get tired, stop and leave it alone until you feel ready to continue. My study was emotional torture. I focused on the fact that the study was needed and people helped me and were trusting me to finish. As you start to analyze your data and start seeing themes and results emerging, it will make you excited. Make sure you are using a data analysis approach that will give you the best results with ease. For instance. I used a program called CAT. It is free but I could not figure out how to use it, that was stressful. I hand coded and also used NVivo, which I loved although it was hard to learn. It gave me excellent results because I was patient with the process. I hope this helps. Analyzing can be very stressful but if you take your time and focus, it will be a lot of fun.

Laverne provides some great advice for resolving stress concerns, but I wanted to add something that might facilitate this conversation toward different types of resources that you may find helpful.

One of the key aspects of qualitative inquiry is building an understanding of yourself: your motivations for the project, your personal biases, and your initial thoughts about the subject. That helps when you start coding and identifying themes, and should generally be discussed at some point. It also helps you understand what works for you in terms of stress reduction. When you're dealing with sensitive qualitative data (e.g., trauma histories, stories about the experiences of prison victimization, or emotional states), you will definitely start seeing yourself empathizing with the stories and the respondents.

In this situation, I recommend following the same type of strategies that counselors use: they typically have someone to confide in about how their work is influencing their lives and emotional states, have gone through quite a bit of self-exploration to learn about triggers and reactions, and have been trained to be empathetic, but keep a healthy emotional distance. I highly recommend examining advice on how counselors deal with job-related stress, as qualitative research with sensitive topics is not that far off as it pertains to the types of things you may be exposed to. In fact, many counseling programs require that those in the program see a counselor at some point, both to understand what it's like to be a client and to have someone to discuss the stress of exposing oneself to emotionally jarring situations at times.

The greatest motivation and drive is learning. Who cares about wellbeing or health of others? Who we are expecting to take care of researchers in general, set aside qualitative, sensitive-data based research? Are we expecting it from Universities or state? In countries like Pakistan, university administration is great to exploit and torture you? They act like feuds. They would threaten to kill you if you oppose any of their decisions or even you courage to show a little dissent to their egos. They will not leave any opportunity to torture your mentally through different tags and various creative ways of harassment and bullying. We can't expect it from the political leaders anything good. They are the ultimate torture for the humanity. We do research, as we have passion and our learning takes care of our wellbeing and not the feuds or the political gangs.

If qualitative analysis affects a person's mental health then quantify the data and compute them accordingly.

thank you very much for all your responses, personally to Laverne A. Davis for reminding me the moral meaning and social responsibility of being a researcher, in relation to our existence among community ; and to William T. Miller to provide a strong strategies to work and 'get along' with my data; as well as Muhammad Usman to remind me the ups and downs of research, and s. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist

To do a content analysis together with an other researcher also decrease the stress level.

dont take it as stress and keep focusing on the reason why have you collected the data?