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Originally Posted by Beebizzy
(((AniManiac))) I was about to say the same as Moose. Say to yourself that you will do ONE teensy weensy edit. If you don't feel like any more after that, permit yourself to stop. But I bet you will. Anyhow you've done that now
I know it's not easy to do academic work when you feel depressed. I undertook (and was forced to drop out of) a PhD and was hospitalised for depression for about a year during it. Prior to that it was well-nigh impossible to do any work.
Em... bacon??
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It's really doing a number on my self-confidence to be so cognitively screwed up. Academic work is hard under the best circumstances, and these aren't that. I spent 3 months last winter unable to do anything on my dissertation, and I desperately want to avoid that happening again. At this point, I don't even know how I work - because previously, I wouldn't work when depressed but would more than make up for it when hypomanic, so I ended up just waiting for the hypomania to kick in and then I'd get everything done. And then some. With the meds, I can't count on that saving grace, so now I'm terrified that I won't be able to keep up. I'm already well behind on my writing timeline, but I just have to keep trying and hope it works out.