I’m a PhD student preparing for my advancement exam in two weeks. For anyone not familiar, a PhD student assembles a committee of faculty who will eventually decide when/if the thesis is good enough for a degree. The advancement exam is basically the initial proposal of your thesis to the committee and them accepting it as a good idea based on your preliminary work and presentation. So far I haven’t had a lot of issues with anxiety over it because I think some meds I started a couple months ago are really starting to kick in, but recently I’ve been feeling like every edit to the report document is a huge decision, like one misplaced or poorly worded sentence will ruin my proposal. It’s made me really slow down returning edits to my advisor, which I know is what will actually hurt me, but when I think of all the million ways of writing even one sentence of my proposal or tweaking one figure, I start to panic and procrastinate. Has anyone else ever felt like this? Any tips?