Hoorah! I have just finished writing my last chapter (Introduction and conclusion not included), and now, I'm totally stuck.

I had a plan to print the whole thing out and read through it all with a marker to note key ideas and themes, but that suddenly seems like a mammoth task, and perhaps not all that productive. How did everyone else, particularly those in arts and social sciences, go about piecing the whole thing together? I just want to see if anyone has any neat ideas before I go printing out a rainforest.

Hi guys, I've just started my final year of the PhD and, while that is exciting, the isolation has been tough and the idea of another year of it is a bit worrying.

Just wondering if anyone else has found that with so much time alone, working and also procrastinating, they've become a bit... paranoid? I've always been a bit nervous socially and concerned about people liking me, but lately, its become extreme - lying awake at night thinking everyone hates me type extreme. I'm wondering if this might be a common outcome of isolating work, or whether I'm just predisposed to being socially insecure? or both!

Any thoughts/shared experiences would be wonderful.