Depression at university

I want to know this too. I'm in college and feel the same way. I'm trying to do the work at home but I feel like I've giving up on education because it feels so trivial (I've learned all I've needed to learn and I'm not learning things anymore, just working). I've been missing days now and it's bothering me but I can't face going in.

know exactly how you feel! i just wanna quit college and give up, i can just sit there for hours and not do anything... i dont even have the guts to make a GP appointment cas i dont want my parents to know ...
do you guys think depression ever really leaves someone?
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Keep anon please mods

Hi I know there are loads of people who have made threads and I've already read them.

I just wanted to know what happened while you were at uni when you were depressed, did you miss lessons and did any of you failed. Or did your university understand your situation and you got to go into the next year.

I am currently in my second year but I had to repeat the first year because I got really depressed and hardly came in or gave in work for missing so many lessons in during both semesters with about 54% attendance. (You need 75%)

I've done well this year on a 2:1/2:2 grade and giving in work last semester but I have fell back into depression at the end of Feb that's how my grades started to slip to a 2:2. Now I'm taking antidepressants and seeing a counsellor, which I know I should have done sooner but I guess I was cynical and stubborn about it.

I'm now worried that I won't be able to get into year 3 and I will have to repeat the year because of my lack of attendance for the last couple of weeks. Meaning I'll be at uni for 5 years >.< which I really don't want to. I can still do the work for this semester deadlines if I focus even if I get a 3
I can get evidence from the GP and counsellor so that's the the problem.

Has anyone who has been depressed and missed lessons was you able to finish the year and go into the next year (or do some of the previous modules with your current one) or did you have to repeat the whole year.

Please no trolls I want this to be a serious thread.

I had the delightful combination of a six-month psychotic episode and nervous breakdown in the final six months of my degree, starting in January 2010. I was asked if I want to leave Oxford completely, leave Oxford and come back in October (i.e. leave halfway through the year and effectively repeat) or whether I wanted to carry on. I had no intention of going anywhere because that would have made things worse, so I stayed but was pulled out of all my lectures, seminars and tutorials. So basically did nothing academic those six months aside from coursework and exams (and I walked out of 25% of those, due to psychotic attacks).

I finished the year and whilst I may not have got the best result in the world, I'm pretty impressed with the results I got given I walked into everything cold turkey and didn't finish 25% of the exams

In my case though, I was helped by the fact that I was too crazy to think about what I was trying to do and I had an amazing welfare team

Hi thanks for replying

You have a valid reason to pass I guess my case is mild compared to yours my anxiety gets in the way of me leaving the house for the past couple of weeks.
The only time I've left is to go to appointments but the uni, tutors,counsellor,GP know so it's not like I'm bunking uni. Plus the advisor's are nice but I send a email and I don't get a reply back for a week I feel like it's being dragged out and I'm running out of time.

I don't know I'm worried that my attendance means I have to repeat the year and that will make me more depressed because I would feel that I've let down my parents and they will be disappointed.

Different unis have different policies about retaking years, how many chances you get, etc. There must be a handbook you have access to which might outline this.

Have you tried asking your tutors and advisers about whether you're going to need to resit the year? Try not to worry about what your parents will think (easier said than done, I know): ultimately your health and happiness is the most important thing and both are crucial to you being able to succeed at uni

Thanks

But you should really see the GP if you are over 18 the doctors are not allowed to tell them.
I was like that before that's why I didn't get help sooner but it really is helpful and the people are really supportive about it.
The GP told me 1 in 4 people have a mental illness (even though I don't like that term) so it's common.

I don't think depression does leave someone since it can't be cured but doing things can help like exercising taking up a hobby, things to take your mind off of it.

Hope you find a way to help yourself

thankyou for this comment, cheered me up a bit
im not over 18, im 17 in 2 weeks, they vaguely know whats going on but they dont know why, do you know if i can make a GP appointment myself??
i went to the school counsellor once and she was very helpful, but im at college now, whoever i talk to can tell on me so its kinda difficult...
i hate being depressed

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