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Oct 13, 2011, 08:37 AM
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so yesterday I joked about how I just want to be little bit (hypo)manic... and there I go. At least I got some ideas for the ******* thesis proposal (the part of brain that is responsible for academic Czech is however bit out of order sadly). At least I got the energy.
And you know what? maybe the thesis proposal can wait for a bit while I go shopping. Weather is cold and I have no warm jacket here. And I really need some clothes. who cares my current balance in bank account looks like I just bailed out Greece?
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Oct 13, 2011, 08:58 AM
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You might feel better about it all tomorrow if you channel some of that energy toward the thesis proposal - at least jot down some of those ideas! But I completely know what you mean... Sometimes I "have to" clean everything before I can consider working. In the process I start 5 other projects, which then sit around glaring at me for months when they get abandoned shortly after.
But I wrote my diss proposal in 7 weeks. I forced myself into a corner by setting a proposal defense date and then rode that hypomanic pony all the way to a finished document in record time. I think the only reason I could do it was that I had a hard deadline, so I couldn't let myself get all distracted like usual. And that was when I was still on ADHD meds, but for some reason the pdoc didn't think it was a good idea for me to stay on stimulants... 
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Oct 13, 2011, 10:38 AM
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I wish there is a hypomanic pony for me to ride when I have to write to my diss proposal next semester...Right now I feel like I won't even be able to make sense in my seminars!
Venus - get those ideas down and then make a very short list of the things you NEED as well the stores you might go into and don't buy anything else...for some damage control 
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Oct 13, 2011, 05:39 PM
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Hey, nice to know there are other smarty-pants academic types here!
I feel so alone in my tiny little academic world. I know a few other grad students with anxiety or depression issues, but no one else who is handling anything a little more...complicated... The isolation of dissertation work can be so miserable as it is, but it's getting even worse as I keep thinking that maybe all my success is just chemical and if I take care of myself like I should, then it'll go away and I'll turn into a burned-out lightbulb. |
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Oct 13, 2011, 06:10 PM
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*prays to the Bipolar Godesses to be hypo as well*
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Oct 14, 2011, 12:48 AM
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AniManiac - I had exactly those doubts...(well, kinda still do but I'm telling myself not to put weight on them) - http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=201077
We have each other - we can do this  
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