I suppose my main supervisor is very respected in his field, and has very high expectations - which in a way is what I want as at the end of the day it'll hopefully mean I get a really good PhD. But when I spend a lot (and I mean A LOT) of time in the lab and feel like I take 2 steps forward, 3 steps back with everything, it's hard to not beat myself up when I don't have data to show for my efforts and let my supervisors know I am progressing and I'm not wasting everyone's time. And it doesn't help that it means I feel like I have no time for anything else so I find it very hard to relax

Hi,

thanks for the tips. It's my first poster presentation so I'm a bit worried about it as I don't know what to expect - I suppose having really good data really would help me feel a bit more prepared!

Hi

Ive always been an anxious person, but now I'm coming to the end of my first year I'm so anxious and depressed about how little data I have and experiments repeatedly going wrong that I don't want to go in and face it anymore and wake up in the night panicked. I'm convinced I'm going to fail and really don't want to let anyone down. Also I have a lot of deadlines this week and I'm completely overwhelmed. My supervisor are lovely but very busy so feel guilty for taking my problems to them as I feel I'm wasting their time and should figure it out myself.

Does anyone know what could help?

Hi All,

I'm having a stress about my upcoming PhD poster at a conference.
Generally the poster is fine, and my flow cytometry data is looking good, but as sod's law would predict it, my associated westerns aren't working as well as they should. I have had meetings with my supervisors, and both have been very supportive despite me having a lot of issues, and I had thought I turned a corner until the last week.

I have emailed about my concerns but I am worried that due to my dodgy westerns I've let myself and them down again, and really wanted to do well for all of us.

Any tips?