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  1. Hello, I am new to this forum but I was hoping to seek some advice. Firstly, I am not a troll or anything near. So i am in my second year of a PhD program, and I feel like the work that I want to do is completely pointless. I just spent hours in a car with a bunch of PhD's and was grilled about my project because I am working with a species that is not economically important, would most likely be replaced by another species if lost from native habitats and is all around a small player in its current ecosystem. To top that off, I feel like the work I am doing is "basic." It is nothing groundbreaking, making me feel like the "basic bastard/bitch" of the scientific community. I've really been struggling with depression and thoughts of suicide, so much so that I was hospitalized in a, for lack of a better term, mental ward earlier this summer when I should have been doing field work. My wife wants a kid and so do I, but I feel like I have been so distant from her, that a kid would only add to my general lackadaisical behavior. It feels like I am going through the motions, twiddling my thumbs waiting for the roof to cave in or the house of cards to collapse. Just looking for people who have gone through these periods and emerged on the other side. I'm seriously thinking about stopping and trying to find a job to get my life on track. Or I am just whining and should suck it up. Thanks
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