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  • 03-03-2010 9:52pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey Boardies...

    Really need to post this and hopefully someone out there can give me a bit of advice.

    I am now in 2nd year of a degree program over 200 miles away from home. I go home and do the round trip every weekend and have done so since moving away three years ago. I would also go home for any holidays, review/study weeks that I get! I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that I feel lonely been so far away from home and it has taken me this length to realise it....at the same time, I don't feel that I could live at home permantly.

    I put the course furtherest away on my CAO to get away for maybe the wrong reasons, I wanted to leave an abusive home instead of facing up to what is going on...

    I'm not entirly happy in my course, in saying this I some-how manage to pass exams and assessments.

    I am all this distance away from home all I can think of is what is going on there, when I'm not at home...Is things okay, whats the atmosphere like, hows mum dealing with things etc. It keeps me up all night every night thinking about it, it's constantly going through my head and I feel as if I'm no good to anyone, which at this moment I'm not!

    Big problem is nobody knows how I feel, I did mention it to my Doctor before because I was really stressed and she gave me andti-depressants (which I'm still on) and also sorted me out with a councellor which I still attend!

    I don't feel as if either of these things have sorted out either problem college, home or the way in which I feel or look at things...

    Does anyone have any suggestions or advice?

    Much appreciated


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  • #2
    tenchi-fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭tenchi-fan


    I hated home so much I went to AUSTRALIA!

    It was meant to be for a year but I only stayed 3 months.

    I wanted to get my life together and although I had some good craic in Oz, I just felt I couldn't begin the rest of my life over there. I had all these plans... once i got home I had to live with my dad and brother and I was back to square one.

    When I was over there my mother kept phoning me.. it almost convinced me that home wasn't so bad and I missed it a bit.

    I REGRET COMING HOME! I cut the holiday of a lifetime short. Once you're back home any length of time (even longer than a week) you will have to put up with all the crap you tried to escape from. I've no doubt it's like a sort of Stockholm syndrome.

    Try to make more friends away from home, join a few clubs, keep yourself busy with fun things... it's a great opportunity to get your own life together. Don't miss it!


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