How to diffuse 'PhD Panic'

• talk to people
• write lists
• lipsyl
• frankinscence oil
• Read
• Write
• Think of Five Amazing Things - write them down (Count your blessings)
• This;  is not a matter of life and death.  This is a PhD.  That's all.
• Plan work as a project.
• Break down topic or problem into doable tasks.  Put timescales on each task.
• Get a sense of perspective. 
• Go on a walk.
• Have a short break
• Remember your PhD is a journey, like any of life's journeys, it will have its ups and downs.  Appreciate the contours. 
• When you get a breakthrough, write it down.
• Remember this is a three year training position - the whole thing is you are getting trained.
• Re-read what your supervisor has written to you.
• And then re-read it again.

Top ten writing tips when you've just had a supervision

1) Prioritise : remember 1) health 2) family 3) PhD
2) Freewrite
3) Time yourself freewriting - and write this at the bottom of your work
4) Background reading for half an hour
5) Freewrite for 5 minutes on what you've just read
6) share your writing - present it to friends and family to help you learn it
7) write down learning points/academic arguments to discuss with supervisor at next supervision
8) plan training for the month
9) plan your main pieces of writing
10) schedule in freewriting time over the next week, at a time when you are most productive

Writing tips when you haven't got much time to write

Break down tasks into doable chunks - how long will each task take?
Are you saying what you want to say?
Are your findings telling us what we know?
Spend one minute only on a particular task - then tick it off your list so you feel like you've accomplished something
Tick off a sentence when you are happy with it
Tick off a paragraph
use a thesaurus
Correct your typos
Re-read your favourite sections to help keep you motivated
Schedule enough time to do it, at a time when you are most productive
Re-read documents, if you're having problems motivating yourself re-read your best received work
Do some background reading of study skills and writing books
Get help
Listen to feedback
Book yourself on writing courses
Use dictation machine
Use positive self talk methods - 'My writing is improving and I am writing more productively each day'

In older people with dementia do social relationships affect their experience?

Advice from mentor on how to pass Transfer

- passing transfer is very important, need to know on right track
- Devise a Gantt Chart
- Devise a Action Plan
- Devise a Time-Table
- Do additional reading over Easter Holidays
- Ensure in agreement with supervisor on academic issues
- Become ideal student

How to end the day's writing

• Always end on a positive
• Write a list
• Read the introduction
• tidy desk
• read favourite writers - Kitwood, Downs, Bartlett, Ballenger, Journal of Clinical Ethics
• Read MA

All I want to do is...

Write a timely, well written PhD that I can put to good use to help older people with dementia.