Everything was going fine until I reached the stage where I had to connect all my research together. I had hundreds of notes, journal articles saved everywhere, and chapters that felt completely disconnected. One evening I met up with a classmate who seemed surprisingly calm, while I was stressing over another round of supervisor feedback. During our conversation, I remember saying that I seriously needed some dissertation writing help because I had no idea how to turn all these ideas into something that actually made sense. We ended up spending two hours complaining about our dissertations instead of studying. It made me realize that maybe feeling lost at this stage is more common than I thought. Has anyone else gone through something similar?