Oh - hello!!! I'm so glad and so sorry I've been crap with invite codes - just realised I have one now I could have given you! 🙈
Very glad you're here. 😊

I thought would be my career. I'm just so tired. I'm approaching the first anniversary of leaving my PhD and I still feel so broken. Thank you for seeing me. And for telling me leaving your PhD felt the same as leaving your abusive relationship. They felt so deeply the same for me. 💔 2/2

I'm so glad to meet someone who gets it. The abusive relationship was a while ago, but it took years and years to have access to therapy that might help to heal those wounds. My PhD opened the abusive relationship wounds up in so many ways. It's the second time I've had to walk away from what 1/

Yeah, it's a crappy disease. Can't believe we're just "living with it" now!

After a few weeks of not being able to cope with any activity at all. Felt a bit better this week, but then overdid it and exhausted myself! 🤦🏻‍♀️

2/2

No, it doesn't help in the long-term. It helps in the short-term though, ugh! I'm quite good with getting enough sleep. Aided by mirtazapine, but I'll go to bed early. Part of the problem atm is that I had covid again and then had bad fatigue for a few weeks, so kind of figuring out my limits 1/

I know lots of DBT skills, and I've had so much therapy, but I think the problem is, I did DBT and worked *so hard*, but it didn't stop me getting into an abusive relationship and it didn't stop me getting discriminated out of my PhD. I feel lost and powerless, and that's a hard place to be. 😐

And I always forget, bc my mental health stuff is so load and present, but also #LGBT #lesbian #queer people and anyone posting about #dyslexia or #dyspraxia