Letters to the Editor
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I'm trying to get how you get that she's "no doubt" histronic...
...Does the LW sound like someone you know personally?
She gave a backstory and the info about her drinking habits. She seemed to me to be able to articulate well what was going on in her life, but that's just what I got from the letter. I don't know her.
She doesn't give reasons for why she wanted to pursue a Ph.D. or even what her field is. Maybe she's cut out for the academic life, maybe not. She doesn't give enough information about that to be able to tell. She doesn't complain about the coursework, which leads me to give her the benefit of the doubt. But just because she gets a graduate degree (if she finishes) doesn't necessarily mean she'll go into academia. There are plenty of people with Ph.D.s who opt out of being professors or who never intended on becoming professors in the first place.
Perhaps she simply wanted to go to graduate school in England--maybe it's a foolish whim, but that's a matter for her and her analyst. Her question was about her drinking and whether it has reached problematic levels, and yeah, it has.