[QUOTE=G lady;6525336]DechanDawa - I am also in academia (I'm in a graduate program) and I'd say while there is plenty of narcissism in academia, there's also just general dysfunction. I love being intellectually challenged but if the price is emotional stability, the price is too high![/QUOTE



General dysfunction? Professors or students? I found my fellow students great. They were hard-working and good team players. However, the professors were dysfunctional...with their rages, humiliating people in public, using class time to overshare about themselves, could not tolerate being wrong, and finally, the worst...sexism. Older professors preying on young female (and male!) students...shall I go on? I think not.

The antidote was students getting together at parties and gossiping ruthlessly about the professors.

All in all graduate school was great...I loved my fellow students and the study and intellectual stimulation. But the professors were def out-of-control narcissists.

(Graduate school was stressful. The first year everyone had meltdowns. The second year a lot of people quit. I was in a three-year program. By the third year the course work was easy...but internships started up the stress. I gained a ton of weight in graduate school because I stopped smoking as a bunch of us became chain smokers. Self care is a must. Graduate school is just stressful...it's the nature of the beast.)