[jacobush]

With depression, the "why" is never easy to suss out, even when something is stated, is that really the reason?

[edu-ap]

Academia can be very toxic and PhD students are the most vulnerable as their Prof holds all the cards. This needs real checks and balances.

[unishark]

Getting a paper into nature and being a top-ranked school almost certainly says it was a high-pressure environment.

But there is certainly a process for handling advisor-advisee issues at a big school like Stanford:

https://deanofstudents.stanford.edu/who-we-are

[agumonkey]

I have a feeling that depression relies on many pillars of your mind breaking.