Thesis-writing illness

Symptoms:

• Everything said or written needs have a reference to be valid. Preferably a peer-reviewed reference.
• The threshold indicating an acceptable state of disorder of the project site(s) is raised to an abnormally high level.
• You write sentences that make total sense to you now, but the moment you submit said thesis would make no sense to you at all.
• You start writing a blog post and half-way through you realise you should actually be writing your thesis instead. You panic! But then decide to throw caution to the wind and continue with said blog post
• You eat more. You sleep more. You start crying at odd times for no particular reason.
• You eat less. You sleep less. You start crying at odd times for no particular reason.
• You love your supervisor.
• You delete 50% of what you've previously written because it's all crap.
• You hate your supervisor.
• You now re-write the 50% that you've previously written. It's pure genious!
• You start feeling guilty for not working on your thesis more.
• You start feeling guilty for not working on your thesis each waking minute you have.
• You start feeling guilty for not working on your thesis when you're asleep.
• You don't sleep.
• You hallucinate.
• Your thesis starts talking to you. It is your best friend.
• It is your only friend.
• You must sacrifice everything for your thesis. Everything!
• The thesis only allows you to consume coffee, chocolate or energy drinks. In fact, the thesis urges you to consume as much of these as possible.
• You must never be parted from your thesis. You must work on it 24/7. 
• Your thesis is your life.

Cure:

• Thesis-writing illness will only be cured once the illness has matured by itself. At the maturing point (commonly known as the thesis submission date or due date), the patient will voluntarily (and may be even forcibly) part from the thesis and all symptoms will disappear after adequate rest.
• Note however, that after recovery some patients will suffer a relapse. Postgraduate thesis-writing illness is more severe and will last for several years (as opposed to months).