On another topic completely...

[baratron]

I'm extremely amused by the answers to my moaning poll. There is a strong correlation between the people who have chronic illnesses thinking I don't moan very much, and the healthy people thinking I moan all the time ;) Oh, sure, some healthy people think I don't moan very much, but they're all the ones who have close friends with long-term illness, so presumably they've acquired some empathy from them. Or maybe I just moan less than their other friends with similar problems ;)

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[nmg.livejournal.com]

[...] in your earlier post, you said I managed to finish mine, though I'm not sure how. That does not convey to me that you have had clinical depression, only that you have had (non- specified) problems.

I had no mental health problems during the course of my PhD. The sentence you draw attention to was an attempt as self-deprecating humour. The period of clinical depression which I spoke of happened some years earlier (1995-1996) and did not coincide with my PhD studies, which began in late 1997.