Sunday, July 25, 2010

I'm failing at life. Please give me advice?

I'm in college. It's a selective, private college. I can't keep up with the work. I have anxiety and I can't get all of this under control. I took a year off to work on anxiety, have seen psychologists on a regular basis, have tried different medications (the side effects of which have made me vow never to take another SSRI again), and am working with academic advisors and counselors now. I cannot handle this. I already dropped one course. I was such a good student in high school, but there isn't enough time and I've let myself get so far behind that even if I did nothing but study from this point on, I would probably make Cs at best, maybe a B in one class. If I leave here, I'm terrified about my future. I hate community colleges. I've audited courses at private colleges and community colleges; I've tried to go to a state university and dropped out in the first two weeks, tried to go to the selective college and dropped out in the first two weeks (only to return this year in an attempt to make it work). I don't know what to do. I don't want a transcript with a bad GPA following me around and preventing me from getting into good graduate schools or keeping me from transferring. If I leave now, I think I can get a Withdrawal on my transcript instead. I'm panicking, and I need some advice. I hate college immensely, but I want to make good money. Thanks.I'm failing at life. Please give me advice?
Get your withdrawal while you can. Good luck.I'm failing at life. Please give me advice?
I'd go with the withdrawal. If you can, take a year off of college. If you can't, then you're probably just going to have to transfer to a community college, as much as you hate them, and go from there.
It sounds like you can't handle the stress of your current situation. Perhaps you're better off just getting a job and going to school part time, so that you don't have to do it all at once. It seems to me that people with serious anxiety disorders are somewhat similar to people with learning disabilities -- they can still get an education, but they may need to go about it in a different way. You're already stressed out about going to grad school when you really should be focused on just getting through your undergrad experience.

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