Stress Center Peer Support

I have always been academically accomplished. Until I started my phd program. Here, I started feeling inferior to fellow phd students and the faculty. It only intensified as the research process for my dissertation progressed. Any problem with my dissertation, which should be just part of doing rese...

I'm in a very competitive grad school. Last fall I canceled presentation of my thesis in front of the whole department because of huge anxiety which stopped me from working on it. Since then I tried to keep anxiety in check, actually over the months did some meaningful work that progressed my disser...

I tend to procrastinate a lot and since I'm in a PhD program working on a dissertation, that is not good. It's actually killing me and when I do force myself to start working, I feel SOOO much better. Except that thoughts of discouragement sometimes overtake and then I can't work several days in a r...

Being prone to anxiety and depression I often tell myself I'm not good enough at what I do. This leads me to procrastination, guilt and even more procrastination and guilt. Eventually, my productivity goes down to zero. I should add I'm working on my thesis in a graduate school. Can anyone relate to...

I'm sure this topic was discussed but it probably concerns a lot of people...My procrastination prevents me from effectively writing my thesis and this has lasted for months. It's a fear of failure I guess...but the result is that I'm not working...the deadlines are approaching and I can only panic ...

Every morning I wake up scared to face a new day. I go through all the bad things and feel so burdened I try to stay in bed as long as possible. Usually, after I get up it gradually gets little better during the day but still panic attack right after you open your eyes is really awful. Can anyone re...

I went through this program like 3-4 months ago and things were looking up. Now it's bad again. I'm at a grad school and I'm currently working on a thesis. Every day I tell myself I'm not good enough to write a good dissertation. Every morning a panic attack about the deadline and the fact I still h...

hi guys I still look at the forum like every other day but looks like nobody posts to the Feb page anymore. I'm on session 11 now b/c I spent few weeks on each of the more important sessions. Plus I feel like I lost part of the steam going through the program that I had in the beginning, so it's tak...

Hi all I posted this somewhere else but didn't get too much attention. I get the strong feeling of guilt that I should be spending more time on my dissertation. I'm at a PhD program and people around me are very competitive. They seem to be working all the time or that's the impression they make. wh...

HI Hopeful: I take my time and grasp each concept I have compassion and patience with myself, if I slack, then I start back to whatever session I last mastered and go from there. I got the program at the end of November and am only on session 5 so be patient! you may have to redo the program a few t...