If you agree that sharing both positive and negative stories is needed then what is the point of your post? I didn't claim to provide any evidence. I merely stated that I thought the GPs post was overly negative until it hit me that I did indeed know two people who ended up in a psychiatric ward. That is all. There aren't any claims about this being normative or in everyone's experience.

EDIT: I stated in my post that I'm ABD and that I did not complete my program so that people would know that possibly my statements nothing more than sour grapes.