In my 5th year of PhD, getting publications done but feeling absolutely foggy and dead.

I don’t mean it as a brag. I got three papers accepted this year, writing my fourth, with my advisor aiming for fifth for me to graduate. Over the course of past five years, I’ve published 6 papers.

I feel dead and foggy. I have no motivation to think. I’d just keep writing / doing what I know instead of reading more and being creative. I don’t know what to do.

My papers are good enough to win awards (said by my advisor) but I just can’t think what visuals / graphs I can add. It’s just text-heavy manuscripts with 20 pages of text, nothing aesthetic. In a nutshell, I don’t have any energy to think out of the box.

What should I do? I’m also proposing next week. I feel like I just wanna get out of here but my advisor’s comments on putting 20% extra effort to make the paper brilliant has gotten to me.

Edit: He’s not toxic about it, I just feel like I’m not doing a goob job and losing my chance at getting some recognition despite having the skillset just because of the lack of motivation / fogginess.

Edit 2: I have decided to just propose and miss the mid-september deadline for the upcoming conference and try again next year. I just have no bandwidth to do data analysis and write an entire paper in two weeks. Thanks all.