[D] Waiting for PhD thesis examination results is affecting my mental health

Hi everyone,

I honestly feel like my mental health is not in a good place right now, and I just want to share this to see if anyone else has gone through something similar.

If you’ve noticed, I’ve been posting quite a lot recently about my PhD thesis situation. I submitted my thesis a little over two months ago. Since that day, I’ve been in a constant state of anxiety waiting for the result.

Every morning, the very first thing I do after waking up is log into the university system to check whether the examination result has been released. It’s exhausting. I know it’s not helping me, but I just can’t seem to stop myself from doing it.

To make things worse, my result still hasn’t come back, even though it has already passed the university’s estimated timeframe. I’m in Australia, and the official deadline for examiners is 8 weeks. We’re already past that. Because of this delay, my anxiety has become even worse. I feel restless and on edge all the time.

That’s why I’ve been posting in different places asking about delayed examination timelines — I think I’m just trying to find reassurance.

Has anyone here gone through something similar? How did you cope with this waiting period? I would really appreciate any advice on how to calm down and not let this consume me every day.

Thank you for reading.