Hi all - I'd like your opinion on a recent event that I went through with my advisor. I'm in the first year of my program.
After submitting a bad draft of a lit review I got *blasted* by my advisor. He threatened to stop supervising me and said some pretty abusive things. While he has been giving me some time once a month, he often cuts meetings short (1 hr or less), or else I always feel like I'm taking up too much of his time. He doesn't seem to want to hear about ideas I have or have discussions around what I am trying to do.
I appreciate his directness, but would like to know if anyone else has had a similar experience? There is a chance for me to switch supervisors potentially to someone who I think might be better all around for the subject area anyway.

Keep in mind that my situation is not rosy and he was right to ask if there was someting going on. I have been going through some motivational issues and questioning my career path and research aptitude (lately especially, but really always). I understand that this is par for the course for many phd candidates.

Any advice?

Hi - I'm honestly in a similar place as you, but I'm not even 2/3rds in! Congrats on making it so far.
Can you read 15mins a day if you take a "reading break" (others take smoke/coffee breaks, so why not?)
Maybe a little tiny step/change like this will lead you to an new idea or an inspiring paper (though I'm personally not sure if such a thing exists, it might be worth the hunt).
I have no family support either, yet my topic is not dry as sticks! It's really hard to deal with that when your life is your topic. Or is it? Does it have to be in order to finish? Not sure about that one either.
Why do we end up feeling like frauds? What is up with that?