PhDisappeared For a Year
I have tried so many times to articulate the reasons why this blog fell silent; to explain why the energies expended over the year were not expended in the […]
Tag Archives: PhD
Get Help: How the myth of self-sufficiency fails PhD students with mental illness
Recently a tankard of ink, both physical and virtual, has been spilled on the topic of depression and suicide. A significant portion of this, particularly on Twitter, was focused on […]
A Reflection on Chronic Illness and Graduate School
I originally wrote the post below in June 2011. I had finished defending my PhD in English Literature in the fall of 2010 and I was depressed, in pain, and […]
Disabled Student Allowance & PhD-Specific Doings: A Resource for Self-Advocacy
The first time I went through the UK’s Disability Needs Assessment process to secure Disabled Students Allowance for a PhD, it took four months and the production of a […]
Student (Mental Health) Problems are “Real” Problems
This post comes from Melonie Fullick (@qui_oui) who writes a regular column on the Canadian Post-Secondary Education (PSE) system at University Affairs. While this post is from December 2012, it’s […]
Why I Have To Say No
One of the most important things in my life is philosophy. I live it and breathe it. I’m not in academia but I manage to fill my life with probability […]
Your Thoughts: What do you want us to be, or do?
The original intention behind this blog was to begin to tell a story in public, and to provide a space for other people in similar situations to tell similar stories. […]
Even more Headaches & Heartbreaks
This article is a follow-up to “The Headache and Heartbreak of doing Academia with Chronic Migraine” and is written by the same anonymous author. When you last heard my story, […]
Finding My Niche Despite Chronic Illness
A few weeks into my first year as a Sociology PhD student, I started to notice intense pain after working out. I don’t know exactly when things changed, but I […]
Doing a PhD with “women’s problems”
Since I was thirteen my education was constantly interrupted by a certain ‘monthly visitor’. I’m now in the second year of my PhD in Modern History and my ‘lady bits’ […]
