I actually have Style- Toward Clarity and Grace as a .pdf ebook. I also have a load of other one's, too, that deal with actually getting down to writing your PhD. Please PM me if if you want any of them.

Thanks very much for your input, DanB and Jepsonclough. Jepsonclough, I don't take any drugs whatsoever now, apart from some valerian root now and again to help me sleep, or beer. DanB, the physical bit is what I'm worried about. I only hope that I'm too young for something like that.

Would I heck as. And I'm shocked that, so far, 28 % have said they would. I mean, no offence, but did they have a gun pointed at their heads whilst the answered the question? Still, each to their own.

Thanks, for the input, Chrisrolinski. I'm suspecting I might be really stressed about work or something, but if it's that, it's shocking what it can do to your body. I'm definitely going to see my GP. I'll just have to swallow my pride and embarrassment, because I've spent a week worrying about it and getting very little work done. Goodboy, I've been on a detox and am no longer on Kalms. Thanks for your suggestion.

Hi Sneaks, thank you. Got some vitamins yesterday, have decided to no longer work extremely late nights and get more sleep, there's definitely nothing in the cistern. I have maybe had a bit too much to drink of late if I'm really honest. I've never experienced anything like this, though - so it's frightening. I'm going to have to go and see my plumber and it's going to feel like I'm on Embarrassing Bodies. In fact, I'll bet there's a locum the day I go and it's...http://www.tvscoop.tv/christian_01.jpg

Do you think that the stress of a PhD and working very long hours can completely stop a hydraulic pressure unit from working in a very short space of time? The plumbing is not really old enough to be blocked with 'lime scale' or any other calcified deposits and was not a problem until about a week ago, when all of a sudden...
I'm beginning to realise that broken plumbing can cause a lot of problems with my new relationship. I could see a 'plumber' about this, but it's the equivalent of seeing one about a toilet blocked with loo roll, if you know what I mean - embarrassing. I've done some research and I'm really terrified that there's something broke and I'll have to have one of those new parts to make it work. I don't want to use 'Mr Muscle' or 'Cilit Bang' because, really, it's fairly new and shouldn't need such agents.
I'm really sorry if this comes across as too much information or disgusting, but I'm really worried that it'll stay broke. And who would want to stay at a bed and breakfast, long term, if the plumbing is faulty? Plus nothing like this has ever, ever happened. I'm really not sure what to do, who to talk to, why it's happened or whether that's it for me now? Can a PhD and long nights really do something like this? I would really, really appreciate any advice because I'm very worried. :-(

The difficulty I have, when trying to write straight on to a computer is - and forgive peculiar nature of this reason - I lose the intimacy of my thoughts and ideas with writing that come with just a pen and paper. The scribbles, the little arrows pointing to extra words and ideas to add into sentences are all lost with Microsoft Word and a bright computer screen. Not to sound terribly pretentious but it's like an artist (a really bad one in this case) trying to paint with MS Paint instead of onto a fresh canvas. I'm cheered to see that I'm not the only one (up)

Writing takes me twice as long as the average person. I find that I cannot write on a computer. Everything I write has to be written and then redrafted on paper before then being typed up on a computer. I wish I had the ability to just type on a computer. Is it like this for anyone else?

Yes, I think you should use Powerpoint. You can keep it very simple and use symbols and pictures to represent your interests in research, teaching and about yourself, clicking the slides effortlessly as you talk away. That's just me though and what I'd do.

This cheers me up...Register with the job matcher update thingy on the prospects website and, periodically, laugh hysterically at the 'suitable' job vacancies it e-mails to you. Here's my latest: multilingual medical information professional... I can't even speak my own language particularly well - let alone another.

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Sneaks, there are some example CVs here for PhD students: *Edited by Mods- Advertising*

I hope I'm not hijacking this thread - and perhaps it deserves a thread of it's own - but the whole identity thing is really interesting. One of the reasons I won't miss my PhD is because I'll no longer have the label, student. I've had it for a collective total of 10 years and I think it kind of gets in the way of life. You have no professional identity. Yet, as alluded to on this thread, it's a very similar lifestyle afterwards except you have more money and a more 'professional' identity. So, I think, unless you go into industry, you won't miss being a PhD student at all.
I certainly won't miss it though. To be sat on your backside all day, reading and pontificating...no thanks. A lot of the academics I know, though by no means a sweeping generalisation, are very strange. There's this on chap that has hair growing out of his ears horizontally, almost like it's been plaited and another one who flicks his tongue out randomly like some lizard. I've also noted that my eye brows are starting to knot - obviously caused by my PhD. So, yeah, I won't miss it.

I would take her to see a stand up comedian, perhaps. Alternatively, how about going to see a play?

I can't believe that someone would ever reference Wikipedia, particularly a 3rd year undergraduate student. It's all lies, lies, lies. I should know since, when I'm a bit fed up with my PhD, I spend my time making up outrageous lies about the lives of celebrities who've annoyed me on TV. Like 'Richard Bacon was born in India and has had several out of body experiences'.