Posted by F43 on March 12, 2009 at 16:50:18:

In Reply to: Re: Overactive Mind posted by Jackson on March 12, 2009 at 16:37:35:

A similar experience here (though not a CEO). I slept without any problems while caring for mother, and then after her death, taking over the estate, property management...all the time living in a big house in the middle of nowhere, with no friends or connections to my other life. Very stressful and exhausting, but it gave me a sense of purpose that I'd lacked since starting my phd. The experience gave my life meaning and a kind of emotional content that had been missing.

18 months after I had settled most of the estate, I moved back to my phd/city life full-time, and tried to resume my derailed phd. I immediately felt lost. My career goals, the academic enterprise, my academic role models, the world I was in, had completely lost meaning to me. My insomnia started a month later.

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