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Lets all be anxious/depressed together.
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Wish I'd got at least one course though
confidence knock you know
Same thing happened to me. Tried again the next year, now I've a degree, was student president for a year and have founded two companies (amazing thing, cyclothymia!) It sucks majorly now, but you can always turn it around, even if it doesn't feel like it now.0 -
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Second level education in Ireland is a truly awful barometer of a person's worth, do NOT take it to heart.
Also, there are a list of vacant courses you could apply to after the 20th. http://www.cao.ie/courses/vpl_courses_popup.htm
I know loads about this stuff, it used to be my job. Always feel free to pm me if you want any confidential advice
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Been a long time since I posted here. I've had my first big panic attack, I've gone since last November without one. Perfect timing, day before my last college repeat. Exam is def fecked, now gotta grovel and see if they'll let me somehow do something else to pass if I can show how ill I've been and if I've been under treatment from uni. I can't sit the exam, its failed like. Gah... stress! I'm getting sick, wired (nearly 24 hours no sleep), proper anxiety 0
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Your college should accept a note from a doctor and see if they'll take other options under consideration. Going only by continuous assessment marks could be an option, they did that for me before in maynooth (though i was just a moron who turned up on the wrong day of the exam, i have the dumb)
Anxiety? Why, the prospect of another year in college could only worsen your chronic condition! College has a duty of care, etc. At the very least you should be able to do the module again next year for free. But push for your CA mark to account for your total grade, and I'd at mark isn't great then Pass by Compensation should kick in and save the day 0 -
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Bigjacklad wrote: »Hi guys....I am paralysed by fear and self-loathing....I feel there is only one way out of this nightmare...and its something i would never have considered in my life...but it seems the only and best option.... basically i've been a coward all my life... but I think I would have the guts to do what i now have to do...sorry
Firstly, it takes guts to come on here and say what you just did. Secondly, the fact that you came on here probably means that somewhere inside you is a desire not to do what you are considering, and you came here because you wanted to talk to people who have experienced the same pressures you are currently going through. So those are the positives!
As for what you are going through now, I have been there many times, and yes that does seem like a good option at the time, but every single time that I pull out of it I always look back and thank Jebus that I didn't do it, because life is worth living when you are not depressed.
As for the coward thing, sometimes you have to push yourself a little bit to get out there more, even when you feel ****ty. A great one that I recommend to people is to join a drama group, it's a lot of fun, you get to meet great people, it builds your confidence and you can tap into your experiences when you act. There is one located here on boards if you are interested.0 -
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Your college should accept a note from a doctor and see if they'll take other options under consideration. Going only by continuous assessment marks could be an option, they did that for me before in maynooth (though i was just a moron who turned up on the wrong day of the exam, i have the dumb)
Anxiety? Why, the prospect of another year in college could only worsen your chronic condition! College has a duty of care, etc. At the very least you should be able to do the module again next year for free. But push for your CA mark to account for your total grade, and I'd at mark isn't great then Pass by Compensation should kick in and save the day
The full module was CA and I failed it :P I got a note from the doctor but UCC work under weird rules, I hope they add in the one in class test I did pass... I might ask if they can. I really need those 29 marks like. Nope, I'd have to pay! and UCC Arts doesnt do pass by compensation
I'll send an email tonight to people in the uni and see what can be done. I sat the exams, I defo havent passed. The doc note will only count for 10 marks... crazy like cos I've passed all my other exams and the anxiety just ruined my chances of going into 2nd year. UCC dont care as long as they make money... meanwhile I just wanna get out and go on into doing my degree!0 -
My little sister came home on Tuesday I don't see her very often, well didn't, cos she used to go to boarding school in the UK, but they closed it now, so she's home. I really do love her quite a lot, we get on really well, she's smart for an 8 year old, so we've spent a fair bit of time together over the past few days, specially with my mum in hospital.
But. And I can't quite pinpoint it, my friend told me I was overreacting, there's something not right with her. I know. And I'm feeling too happy myself right now either.0 -
(I have never posted in here before ... I just kind of lurk
I'm sorry this is kind of long)
But anyway. No one I usually talk to is awake/answering me so I thought I'd post here. I don't know if I can do that or not but I don't really know what else to do.
I recently told my bf that I feel awful (again). I've only met him this last February. Anyway, he's gone back home for college and I'm still in Dublin and I've been quite mean and moody and cranky to him all summer so I thought I'd tell him why. I don't think he actually understood how serious I was being (the last time I felt this bad I ended up in hospital and he knows that) because he hasn't stopped with constantly nagging me to be nicer to him and be polite and talk about fun things. His sole piece of advice was: "oh depression's just a chemical imbalance, you just need to change your diet and exercise more. You just haven't found the right balance". Subsequently told him that that doesn't really work for me, and his response was "Then you're not going to get better then". :rolleyes:
Fast forward to today where I logged into his FB account so I could send myself gifts in some stupid game. He knows I do this and he knows I have his password, and lets me log in so he doesn't have to play the stupid game. Then made the mistake of checking his messages because he's been acting strange to me lately (personally I thought he liked someone else but eh...)
Found a lovely message saying "Since I got back from travelling, she's been the most almighty bitch. Once her [repeat] exams are over, we're over. . . I'm not [sorry]. I'm so sick of her **** it's not even funny. *friend says something about he's being nice waiting for me to finish exams* Yeah, she's pretty fragile. If I break up with her now I'm afraid she might lose it, break down, not study and fail her exams." He then went on to have a conversation with ME saying he misses me and he wishes he could come see me.
I don't know whether to be sad or angry. Both. I don't know what to do. 0 -
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Gremlinertia wrote: »polka dot, i'm with cloud on this one, personally i wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything until this is out in the open. Bear in mind though that the guy was having a chat with his mate, he may have been talking more harshly than he would with you.
Thank you (and Cloud) I did call him out on it, and like you said he said that he was just angry at the time and he doesn't want to do that at all.
I've asked/am currently pushing to have a break and talk to him properly after my exams because we keep fighting and it's getting me even more down and I can't concentrate on study and I wouldn't be able to handle failing ... eh again.
Thank you both a lot though. I would have just left it and brooded over it for weeks otherwise. Going to try and contact the mental health service when I get back to college, I don't know anything around where I live.
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It's amazing how you can do so well for weeks at a time, start looking forward to the future and imagine yourself crawling out of that hole forever....
....then one single night of weird dreams is enough to distort your mind and turn you into self-pitying mopey mess again. I've been avoiding the reality of what the next year is going to entail for me, of how much my future depends on what happens in the next 12 months. If it goes well, I'm almost certainly gonna be ok. But if it all goes wrong, I can't honestly see the point of living beyond it. It's basically gonna be a "live or die" coin toss.
And the past is still the past. It still hasn't changed, and it never will. And I'll never be able to make peace with that. 0 -
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Hello you guys, haven't posted in a little while! Hope you're all okay, and if not, hope it gets a bit better soon.
Can feel myself slipping back into bad thoughts the past while; was pretty low yesterday evening especially. I know things are up when I'm not in a talkative mood (usually a very chatty person)... Really need to work at getting some structure into my days, but it's easier said than done >.< Old reliable bad eating/food habits have once again reared their head this past while too, argh.
don't be too hard on yourself. depression can be a pretty cruel master. if you feel bad, let yourself feel bad. we're all allowed a bad day now and then. do things as you see fit. don't look at things in the past as a negative, but rather as a chance to do things better. be well 0
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