Every time I read a paper I am so bored. I can't tell if this is just what it's like or maybe I'm on the wrong path. Is anyone not bored when reading papers? Or is anyone fully fascinated sometimes? This issue is starting to hinder my research and I'm not sure what to do about it.
My therapist is currently on parental leave and after some reflection I have decided to not move forward with him when he returns. He's an okay therapist but he doesn't always seem present in our sessions, including looking at his Apple Watch throughout the session and even falling asleep briefly sometimes. He also doesn't really ask me follow up questions. The sessions end up feeling like I'm just venting to a friend or something, and not even like that because my friends usually pay attention to everything I'm saying and ask me questions if I'm needing support. After two years I haven't seen much improvement in the issues I went to him for. For these reasons I think it's time I move on. How did you go about notifying your therapist that you would be switching? Did you end it in session or send an email? I'm thinking of sending an email but after two years I'm wondering if that's inappropriate.
I published a paper a couple months ago (my first lead author paper of my PhD) and after acceptance I found several mistakes in the code for the analysis. I managed to correct them but the paper did have to go out for review again. However, there are still some results that are suspicious to me, although my co-authors think everything looks okay. Because coding is so finicky I keep thinking I made some tiny mistake in the code that threw everything off and is a retraction-level error. I've gone back and checked many times and everything has turned out okay, but then I find other things to worry about that I didn't check. It's a torturous cycle. I have to use some of the same code for my next paper and I have panic attacks while working because I worry I'll find something wrong again. Has anyone experienced something similar? How do I let this go?
Edit: I also want to add that I haven't done my dissertation proposal yet and I will have to use the figures from my paper in my proposal. It's not until the fall but I'm freaking out about that too.