Can I be kicked out of my lab for not being productive enough or being too stressed or too emotional?

Letter Fourteen: Dear Emotionally Overwhelmed

Here’s something I know to be true, shame thrives in silence. The quieter we are, the more hidden our feelings become, the more isolated we make ourselves, the worse off we are. I am here naming shame for you, as I recognize that you didn’t use that word yourself. Because what I hear in the fear of being a ‘waste of time, money, and energy’ is not being enough, not having a sense of worthiness to be there if you aren’t showing up emotionally in certain ways, of you not being ‘good’ if you aren’t productive and producing.