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PhDisappeared For a Year

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  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 […]

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Experiences, Postgraduate Research
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Get Help: How the myth of self-sufficiency fails PhD students with mental illness

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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 […]

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Argument & Analysis, Experiences, Postgraduate Research
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A Reflection on Chronic Illness and Graduate School

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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 […]

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Experiences, Postgraduate Research
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Disabled Student Allowance & PhD-Specific Doings: A Resource for Self-Advocacy

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  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 […]

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Postgraduate Research, Support & Advice
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Student (Mental Health) Problems are “Real” Problems

August 12, 2014by phdisabled 1 Comment

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 […]

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Argument & Analysis
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Why I Have To Say No

August 5, 2014by phdisabled 1 Comment

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 […]

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Experiences
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Your Thoughts: What do you want us to be, or do?

July 25, 2014by phdisabled 3 Comments

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.  […]

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Even more Headaches & Heartbreaks

July 8, 2014by phdisabledguest1 3 Comments

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, […]

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Experiences
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Finding My Niche Despite Chronic Illness

July 1, 2014by phdisabledguest1 4 Comments

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 […]

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Experiences
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Doing a PhD with “women’s problems”

June 25, 2014by phdisabledguest1 6 Comments

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’ […]

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