Posted by alexandra_k on June 14, 2009, at 0:29:06
In reply to Re: Balancing acceptance and change » Deneb, posted by Phillipa on June 14, 2009, at 0:00:19
The therapist I was working with told me out of the blue that we weren't going to be working together anymore and that she was reccommending (for my file) that nobody work with me and that I be discharged from the service because I hadn't shown any improvement with all the therapy that had been offered to me over the last few years. I lost it. They called crisis services. I was in hospital for a few weeks. I was on something or other that made my vision all blurry and I couldn't study. They discharged me at 11am on a morning where I had my one and only exam scheduled in for 3pm. I knew that there was no way that I'd pass the exam if I sat it. I thought that I had to take the exam since I was discharged from hospital. I thought that if I flunked that class (which I would have done with a fail for the exam) then I would ruin my chances of getting a scholarship to do my PhD. I jumped off an overbridge onto a motorway. Fractured legs and spine and pelvis etc. Don't know that I wanted to die. Do know that I needed to be in hospital in order to get compassionate consideration on the exam. Thats how it seemed to me at the time at any rate. And then they said that I wouldn't qualify because my injuries were self inflicted. And the p-docs were like 'its okay you can do the course (the last course required for my degree) again and get an A next time around!!!' and I was like 'of course I can but that won't help my GPA'. Eventually... Someone got that. Signed off on the compassionate. The things we do... There didn't seem to be another way. And... I'd do it again if I needed to.
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