How do you bounce back when your self esteem has been beat down day in day out by your supervisor for years? My confidence is rock bottom guys. I am six months away from finishing but I cant take it anymore. I am made to think I am so useless a student all the time and as a result I am always stressed. My supervisor seems to be happy to see me in this state. I have taken it for far too long and I now fear my health will be affected. I am thinking about changing my supervisor but I am not sure if its the right thing to do at such a stage. All along I thought things were going to change but they seem to be getting worse. I avoid contact with my supervisor whenever I can because he finds something provoking and negative to say whenever I talk to him. For example, out of nowhere, I can be reminded of a mistake or I made a year ago and how that makes me the worst student on this earth. Sometimes this happens in the presence of other students and staff members and this drives me nuts. To make matters worse other students have caught on this behaviour resulting in bad relationships with some fellow students. The meetings to discuss progress aren’t extremely bad in terms of advice given though there is an excess of negative comments. I never do anything right! In these meetings its like he is in some kind of a competition with me showing me how he is more knowledgeable than I am. Surely if I possessed the same level of knowledge I wouldn’t be the student. When I suggest something its normally shot down but interestingly the same idea can come back from him as a new and brilliant idea a few weeks/months later. I am afraid with his behaviour I might fail.Should I go ahead and request for a change of supervisor or its not advisable at this stage? Please help.