When systems designed to support you, harm you
Patients with chronic pain and illness often have a hard time getting the help and care they need from the medical system. Learning to manage our conditions is often a […]
Tag Archives: time to change
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 […]
The headache & heartbreak of doing academia with chronic migraine
I’m a part-time PhD student, with a chronic illness and a family. I have a grant that pays my fees, but everything else I need to live on I must […]
Asking for Access After Declaring Disabled: An Interview Story
This week I was called to interview for a Research Council funding competition. The application was part of a last-minute marathon attempt to restart my PhD research this Autumn. This […]
On Pain & Celebration
Way back in December before PhDisabled had to take it’s own break for some self-care, we recieved this post from @Lykarar. While the various events that happened then have now […]
Living with depression (while doing a PhD)
After a string of conversations on twitter, I wanted to write about the hard work that goes in to being a PhD student as someone who suffers from depression. As […]
