i submitted my phd last year but ended up with a nasty viva where i got major corrections. distraught, i went through a phase of depression and now my official submission deadline is in january.

to meet this deadline i need a draft of my thesis at the end of October which my supervisor can look through and get back to me with final corrections. i've done some reading but very little writing and am only getting back to being my former self. the corrections are vast, a major rewrite of the work.

i'm hoping its possible to do it in two months - (still lots of reading to do!) - but at least in the two months am not doing any sort of work so am planning on doing them 24/7. am in social sciences, therefore its the 80,000 word thesis. i have two chapters done, but 4 to go!

prior to submission i took me three months to write the entire thesis, but at the time i was positive, upbeat and all. but after a disastrous viva, i find it so hard to be positive about it all.

i came on here to get some accountability. somewhere to report what i've done. maybe that'll motivate me a little.

is anyone else doing major corrections. how do you feel about the whole thing?