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Why Doing a PhD Feels Like Losing Your Mind
Doing a PhD means you are in your head a lot. You live inside your own thoughts, and it becomes very difficult not to go into great depths of negativity. You start to ruminate, to fixate, to compare yourself to others, and it becomes this spiral where you feel horrible about yourself.
Loneliness becomes an industrial hazard of the profession. You are rated against others constantly, and you start to think you are not as good as you should be. It is a very strange, internal negotiation—just you and your own mind. Some days you get it miserably wrong and have a miserable day. Other days you get…
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