Bananacake, that's great advice. Although sometimes the feeling is from doing too much, from being too busy without any downtime. Maybe the hardest thing is not to get into a self-fulling loop - to be depressed, then act depressed, so others react to you differently. I commiserate, and am hitting the wall now in the middle of the 4th year part-time. So, I just bought myself a bass guitar. Sometimes we just have to pamper ourselves, because who else is going to?

(That flowers writing paradigm is great. I'm going to try using a digital recorder for the madman stage while driving to work in the morning, and then transcribing it with Dragon Naturally Speaking.)

Last December, I was progressing slowly toward the degree, so resolved to work harder on writing and research. Now I've published and presented, but my career has suffered. I haven't lost my job, though I'm unhappy with my performance.

Is it possible to do both well (full-time work and a PhD)? Or is this a life lesson in prioritizing vs. perfectionism... Hi, by the way, this seems like a great forum.