<p style="font-size: 16px;" data-pm-slice="0 0 []">Doctorate programs come with nonstop research, deadlines, and high expectations. Even with planning, balancing academics, work, and personal life can feel overwhelming. There are moments when the thought pay someone to take my doctorate level class crosses my mind out of pure exhaustion. Not as a real intention, but as a signal that burnout is creeping in.
It makes me wonder how common this feeling is among doctoral students. What healthy, ethical ways have you found to cope when the pressure feels unmanageable?