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I don't know what to do

  • 08-06-2009 10:55pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
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    I left college with the intention of sorting myself out(depression) and do some travelling. I left college, the city and a job to go home in the hope of some emotional support, well I should have known my family better. I ended up getting worse because of deaths, friends and family. Now I'm not really better(just confusing the hell out of doctors at the moment).

    Right now I've no job and have very little confidence to be able to get one. Because of different things I have very little money and for the umpteenth month my rent is going to be three weeks late.(I live in the town I came from but there's no family home)

    I was going to go to a thing on in college and I started thinking of going early and talking to the head of the department about going back. I've got nothing for me here, I can't really say that I much of a family here, the friends I would normally hang out with either died or stopped being friends(I suppose, I don't know if I can call them friends and I don't know what happened), I've no job and I can't afford to keep living like this.

    I'm thinking now it might be a good idea to go back to college but I'm really not sure what I should do. At the moment I don't have anyone to talk to about this, I don't know if it would be a good thing or a bad thing. It's also been two years since I left college.


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  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I dont see how leaving college was going to help you with depression. I mean, giving up/quitting on so far, the biggest comittment of your life... yeah, no. If you were having problems with depression you could have sought out the college counseling/medical services.

    People often mistake not having someone familiar to talk to as a weakness. Rather, you need to think of it as an opportunity to seek the counsel of someone who is completely autonomous from the issues you are having and can offer an unbiased outsiders view.

    I really don't see how going back to college could at all be considered a bad thing. Whats stopping you?


  • #3
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Op here,

    I just want to make it clear that in college what I opted out on is the 4th year add-on degree. I do have a diploma and I know that if I had of gone into the 4th year right away I would have either dropped out or failed. I'm not going to argue if going home was a good or bad idea, talking about it now is pointless. As for what's stopping me, I'm worried the stress of a thesis aswell as everything else involved in the final year in college may cause me to be worse. That might be a confidence thing, like the job, I might be able for it.

    As for the job, for the past while I haven't done anything because everytime I see a job advertised I think, I'm not able to do that or I don't have enough experience for that. I did get one interview for a good job but completely messed up the interview. It's difficult to have any confidence when there's a voice in your head telling you 'your stupid' your useless' 'your a lazy b*tch' etc and to make it worse it's your own voice.


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