michaela / reading and writing under dreaming spires / history phd
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One thing I really hate is that ever since I became ill it feels like I’m failing at everything. I’m failing at my thesis because I’m only able to make tiny amounts of progress, and at the same time I’m failing at my relationships because the superhuman effort that the tiny bit of thesis work takes leaves me so depleted that I simply have NO ENERGY for keeping up with anyone and so I effectively just have no personal life anymore. And at the same time I feel like I’m somehow also failing at my health because no matter how much I rest its never enough and I can feel my baseline slipping a bit further every day of the week until I take a day off just to rest and then I recover a bit just to start the whole cycle over again from scratch and feel like I'm failing my thesis……..
#and im not failing! this is just insanely hard!#i dont know what the solution is#i keep thinking its like an optimisation problem that i can somehow solve#if only i try hard enough#but there is no solution#except maybe drop out and give up on the thesis#but i cant bring myself to do that#so theres no solution#just struggling#every day I think I can’t do this it’s too hard#and then I try to do it#and it feels like I’m failing the whole time#personal#long covid#mecfs
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I need to pull myself together in a very very very kind way
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calling in to work sick with a “weird dream”
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highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.
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In my humble opinion
#forget fandfic this is about my thesis#i can fit so many of these bad boys into my academic writing#my supervisors cower in fear of my army of semicolons and dashes
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they should invent a january that doesn’t make you go through every emotion known to mankind every day
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having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing
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people trip me out when they say shit like “oh i miss being 10 years old and not having problems” like the fuck you mean you didn’t have problems
#genuinely so bizarre#whatever problems i have now are NOTHING compared to ten year old me’s problems
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Source: This
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in pisa, italy
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Hate how lighting a candle does wonders to my mood. Like wowwww. Grug like fire? Grug not sad anymore because Fire in Cave? Wow. Real predictable of Grug.
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that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao
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You will not stay stuck in the same patterns forever. You are capable of change. It might be small and you may not be able to see the change day to day, but over time things will get better.
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31 December - Alexander Mokhov , 2005.
Russian , b. 1974 -
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