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Old Jan 04, 2012, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by spinach88 View Post
So, I have completed my Masters and I have been excepted into a top PhD program with a top scholarship. I am so excited. The only thing that could stop me now would be an extreme episode which had quite the effect on me during my Masters. Although even minor depressive episodes are a worry, I guess.
Congrats! I'm a PhD student in the final throes of dissertation writing. It's wonderful and terrible at the same time.

I'll give you a heads-up, in case you haven't figured it out already, that doing a PhD is extremely demanding and extremely stressful.

Just my $0.02, but I would strongly suggest getting yourself as stable as possible before you start your program. Even a minor depression can tank you pretty quickly with the level of expectations that are placed on PhD students.

I wish I had been diagnosed before I started my program; it would have made things so much easier on me. I've done well nonetheless, but with way more struggle than was really necessary.