Diseases of the Thesis

1. Fraud Paranoia
When you start referencing EVERYTHING. including your own work.

2. Reading Depression (happens when a casual visit to the library becomes an obsessive snatch and grab session. And i have discovered by now, acquiring 17 books isn't an incentive to read them- any of them. It all starts getting worse when you walk into class and someone says: Have you read this? or [insert Author name]? )

3. Pre-emptive strike syndrome
When someone asks you how your thesis is going... or whether they can read it, you usually answer
"It isn't ready yet."

or when the dreaded day comes once in 2 weeks when the supervisor asks to see your chapters.
You reply something like this progressively...
"This is a draft"
"This is a rough draft"
"A very rough draft"
"A very very rough draft"
"This is crap"
"I didn't write that"
"I found it somewhere online, can you believe that?"
"I thought you might find this interesting."
"Actually, you won't. I don't think... i'm not sure why i'm showing you this."

Welcome to the Club.