I've got a tendency toward depression and am starting to feel very badly. I am awaiting a diagnosis on PCOS in a week and a half and I am so nervous about it. I can't focus on many things and all I want to do is stay in bed. I'm in graduate school right now and can't afford to be slipping in my classes! But this is so stressful. On top of that, I have a cold too.
thats why were here! i dont think your complaining at all! you have so much going on with your body as well as your classes.
i know you cant 'afford' to not do good in class, but maybe you can speak to your professers, explaining your upcoming diagnosis of a chronic illness, and you are worried about that and your grades as well. i understand that they probably wont grade you differently, but they may give you something- like a longer time, or make up tests or something. just a thought. they are human, too. surely they can appreciate chronic illness, and have come accross it before.
anyway, its good that you come here and talk about it, instead of holding it all inside yourself. you did the healthy thing!
Thanks for the comments. I have talked to a couple of them; but I don't know how realistic it will be to continue this semester. I feel like I've taken on a bunch of new classes: PCOS 300, Endocrinologic Disorders 200, and PCOS nutrition 101 along with everything else. If I have to deal with new meds, too, taht will take its toll. I was going to try to graduate this summer, too.
I am pissed off that I just got an assignment back that I got a low(er) grade on than the effort I put in. It wasn't that bad, but every little thing that goes wrong on top of everything else makes you want to just stop everything. I am in class right now but soooo don't want to be.
-Amie
i did end up dropping a class this year, and theres another one i may drop, i'm just finding where it would just be a struggle for me to get through because it's boring before, now its way too much to even consider setting an hour aside to work on things. for me its because my dad died in november and i am dealing with alot of tax and inheritance type drama aswell.
but i know how you feel when things seem like its suddenly too much.
Thanks for your comments. Nice to hear from another student. I barely made it through last semester because I was diagnosed with exercise induced asthma and it progressively kept getting worse. Then I seemed to get over that, started a new semester, now I may have this PCOS thing. Makes a person just want to say f*ck it, sorry for the language, but seriously, it's so frustrating!
it's true though.. health and well bieng come 1st i think, if you dont have that what's the point?
"i just earned a fancy degree but im too sick to use it"
Haha that is true. I have decided to put more of a priority on de-stressing myself, getting enough sleep and hydration daily. Some nights I have been sleeping a few hours if at all trying to get everything done. It is not worth it. If I have to drop a class or two, that is what I will do, it is just not worth being sick, in general, but with asthma and probable PCOS, it's not to be played with.
depressed today 
