I may have found a stream if you know what I mean <| sep |> I got lvl 9 in arena 8 <| sep |> The current PI I ' m working with and TAing for has borderline personality disorder , but my classmate ' s PI endowed , publishes 80 papers a year has narcissistic personality disorder . We both went through hell this first term of the year , and my depression and anxiety both in remission when I first started this term , and had been for months came back in full force . I also developed a dissociation problem . All in a span of seven weeks or so . To elaborate on the narcissistic personality disorder professor let ' s call this person O , the person has done the following , according to my classmate 1 . Play favourites . If you ' re O ' s favourite , great ! If not , you ' ll be stuck in the worst desk yes , O moves you , not give you anything to work on , put you down in front of people . 2 . Brook dissent . God forbid if you contradict O or point out a mistake . You ' re done . Period . Stuck in the worst desk , can ' t do anything , etc . 3 . Bye bye graduating . O withholds data so that you can ' t graduate . The average turnover rate for that lab is something like 10 years . The more you get on O ' s bad side , longer you will stay . I haven ' t actually heard in detail all the NPD stuff , but what I had heard fits O down to the letter . But we weren ' t the worst . Another endowed professor ' s lab who is never there , and some students have termed this professor as biggest jerk you ' ll ever meet produced someone who made a choice that shouldn ' t be made at all , which sent my best friend reeling and scrambling for cover . What ' s worse , my PI the borderline personality disorder is the ombudsperson , which makes going to the ombuds well nigh impossible . The bad thing is that tenured professors aren ' t very touchable . What we the three of us decided to do is protect the incoming cohorts from these insane bastards who sent us to therapy , because we all wished that someone had told us before entering the programme . We ' re also moving to launch mentoring programmes upper class paired with lower class and sort of takes care of the incoming cohorts until they get the political stuff . I actually got the idea here and climate committees also got the idea here , thanks to the UC Berkeley Science Review . We all need to fight back . Graduate school isn ' t slavery , and we ' re people with human emotions . I ' ve also changed my mind about tenure . I used to think that it wasn ' t such a big deal , but that antiquated production line of bullies and dysfunctional people that sidelines those who actually want to contribute to the future generation by teaching has to go . The fact that someone had to die for all of us to get moving I threw the idea of mentoring programme out in the open back in October , and it wasn ' t met with such enthusiasm , but after the incident people were coming to me going we need that thing is a huge mistake and something that needs correcting ASAP . This isn ' t a sacrificial altar . We can ' t do anything major but we CAN do grassroot like activities to protect the new people and make sure that more victims aren ' t produced . I at least owe that to the person who left us .