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Posted by Dkscully on February 13, 2005, at 23:54:51
Hi everyone! I just discovered the board, and despite the fact that very few people seem to post on it, it seems like some of you are going through similar situations to what I've been enduring.
I'm a second-year grad student. I take my comprehensive exams in a month and a half. My boyfriend finished school in December, and is unemployed, and it stresses me out beyond belief. I've got classes and an assistantship to deal with, as well. And I feel like medications for anxiety/depression have made things worse for me.... to the extent that I find it hard to get anything done, and I spend half of my free time crying. How do you get through all of this stuff when you wake up every morning with this pit in your stomach and your heart racing, before you even have a conscious thought? I've done really well in grad school, thus far, and I'm so afraid I'm going to throw it all away by being like this...
Anyway, I just felt like venting--a very uplifting post to join the group with, I know!
Posted by alexandra_k on February 14, 2005, at 2:42:49
In reply to Hi everyone!, posted by Dkscully on February 13, 2005, at 23:54:51
Hello. Great to see another poster over here :-)
> I'm so afraid I'm going to throw it all away by being like this...But you have been doing great, so you must have a lot of inner strength. Grad school is hard in itself. Throw in anxiety and depression and that makes it mega-tough. But you have been doing it up till now and you are nearly there. Do you get a break soon (I have no idea of your holidays)?
Posted by dkscully on February 14, 2005, at 9:27:15
In reply to Re: Hi everyone! » Dkscully, posted by alexandra_k on February 14, 2005, at 2:42:49
Nope--no break until the week after Easter (I think that's the last week in March)... By then, I may have at least one section of my comps done. Scary...
Posted by gardenergirl on February 14, 2005, at 10:41:57
In reply to Hi everyone!, posted by Dkscully on February 13, 2005, at 23:54:51
Hi,
I'm a grad student, too. In my fifth year. Good luck on your comps. What a relief it will be when you are done.Does your university have counseling services available? Mine does, and I started going in my 4th year. I wish I had started sooner. It's been a godsend for me.
Take care and welcome to the students board,
gg
Posted by dkscully on February 14, 2005, at 10:54:04
In reply to Re: Hi everyone! » Dkscully, posted by gardenergirl on February 14, 2005, at 10:41:57
Yeah, I started going to the counseling services about a month and a half ago... After I realized my family doctor should not have been prescribing this type of medication to me, and I decided to go to the psychiatrist here (you can't see the psychiatrist without going to counseling)... So far, it hasn't done much for me. The woman made me take a career test, even though I LOVE what I'm studying, and that's one of the few things I am confident of in my life! She's also chosen to fixate on my difficult with public speaking--which honestly, is not something I care about right now. I mean, yeah, it's something that is scary for me, but for the most part, I can avoid it in life, and I don't really feel like I'm missing out much. The "issue" as I see it is the fact that I wake up every morning feeling incredibly anxious, and sometimes I just panic and breakdown when it gets to be too much. I want to learn to turn off all of the negative feelings that constantly go through my head. I realize she's a person too, and is probably just trying to target problems that she knows how to "fix," but my feeling is that my anxiety is much more generalized...
Posted by alexandra_k on February 16, 2005, at 0:07:45
In reply to Re: Hi everyone!, posted by dkscully on February 14, 2005, at 10:54:04
Hmm. Some of them do like to work on what they like to work on, eh? Seems a bit pointless to work on public speaking unless it is creating a problem for you in your life.
I get generalised anxiety. Sense of impending doom. When asked *what* I am afraid of it is just a general *something bad* and when asked when I am afraid *something bad* is going to happen the answer is ANY MINUTE!!!!! - thats the point, see?
In my case it is worse when I feel like I am behind with my work (which always starts up first day back and just kind of builds from there). I guess I am worried about a lot of different things, but not really anything in particular.
What kinds of things do you think about when you are crying???
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