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Mental hell (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (10 children)

This just confirms what every young person in academia knows: gotta get on uppers to be competitive.

My partner is a PhD candidate and at a recent party a postdoc was telling us how he acquired a giant crack rock at the beginning of his grad career and whenever he needed to finish a big assignment or something he would lick it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This definitely seems like the more likely explanation. There certainly is a mental/emotional hell you go through in academia, but with this y-axis being specifically about psychiatric medication... all I'm seeing is that grad students like/need Adderall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I was thinking more antidepressants and less Adderall

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