Thank you so much for both answers. You are right. I am constantly setting up deadlines for my self to finish projects and when I pass the deadline with a failed experiment my stress level goes up. Thank you so much for your responses.

Hello everyone,

I am a PhD candidate (3rd year) and is extremely frustrated over everything!!!. First of all, I have submitted a paper to a journal 3 months ago and since then I have gotten no response from the editor, editor in chief or the editorial team. This is a good journal and I am really frustrated as why this is how they handle it.

To make the situation worst, the project I am working on right now gave initially very good results and thus I designed new experiments to continue the project but since 3 months ago nothing is working and experiments are failing. I have checked every possible thing and can not find the problem. I am very frustrated. I cant sleep properly due to my level of stress. Relaxing and taking times off has not helped me. I don't know what to do anymore.

I just wanted to tell these things to graduate students who can possibly understand my situation.