if you're feeling like shit, afraid you don't know what you're doing, that you will never get that grant, that your life is meaningless and there is no exit from it, that all your fears will come true and you will achieve nothing you wanted to achieve, don't worry, you are not alone in this, just focus on your goals, one goal at a time, ignore everything else autistically like i know you are capable to

i read in a psychology paper that training your empathy is good so that's that (no of course i didnt just keeping this sci related)