So my mental health has been declining a bit the past few weeks, largely due to extreme pressures of work. These extreme pressures are, sadly, unavoidable if I want to pass my doctorate whilst I’m still getting paid for it.

This month sadly the pressure is going to be ramped up more, and I’ve already worked the last two weekends on top of the usual Mon-Fri.

Annoyingly however this month the pressure isn’t just around work. But I’m now quite skint and having to try spend as little money as possible till I get paid at the end of the month, my closest friends are also not going to be around town much this month, I have no weekend plans at all (partly because I can’t afford it) and my one respite which was my pottery class has now ended for the foreseeable.

Tldr: huge amount of work to do, no money, no plans for the whole of September