Can't focus, no interest?!
Question: I have depression and an anxiety disorder. I have been taking SSRI's for a few years now. About two years ago, I was a really really hard working a focused student. I was a perfectionist and I always worked really hard to get good marks. last year (Grade 11) a lot of really bad things happened to me. I got really sick and lost some of my vision for a few weeks, so I missed a whole bunch of school, then a month later my mom had a heart attack. Like 2 weeks after my mom's heart attack I had to write my exams, but i couldn't focus on my work so i failed them. After that, things started to get better until my boyfriend of 17months broke up with me.
That was a year ago, and I haven't recovered. What I mean is, I am totally over THAT, but my school work hasn't recovered. I'm a senior now, and this is when I need to be doing my best but I just can't seem to focus. I feel like that whole situation changed who I am, and I'm like a different person today. What do you think I can do?
Answers: I have depression and an anxiety disorder. I have been taking SSRI's for a few years now. About two years ago, I was a really really hard working a focused student. I was a perfectionist and I always worked really hard to get good marks. last year (Grade 11) a lot of really bad things happened to me. I got really sick and lost some of my vision for a few weeks, so I missed a whole bunch of school, then a month later my mom had a heart attack. Like 2 weeks after my mom's heart attack I had to write my exams, but i couldn't focus on my work so i failed them. After that, things started to get better until my boyfriend of 17months broke up with me.
That was a year ago, and I haven't recovered. What I mean is, I am totally over THAT, but my school work hasn't recovered. I'm a senior now, and this is when I need to be doing my best but I just can't seem to focus. I feel like that whole situation changed who I am, and I'm like a different person today. What do you think I can do?
i'm sorry about your mom, i hope she's better now
frankly, i think it really sucks that young people have to worry about their 'permanent record' when they're worried about a parent's heart attack.
talk with your school councelor, i was kind of in your situation for other reasons when i was your age. i didnt go to him, he found me. And he truly had more faith in me, than i had in myself
i did well in college, and business
good luck!
you are too young to think 1 year of bad luck should ruin you... you can sit there and feel bad and not focus on your studies or you can look back @ the years of glory you had and focus on your grades, going to college and working on you...
good luck. i think if you can say the past is the past, and i want an awesome present and future that you will do great.
If you were able to keep up your grades through out most of your school years, you still can make it. Look deep in your heart, you know that in order to get the grades that you want, you need to apply yourself. Getting good grades has nothing to do with the love of your mom or anyone else. Find out your weakness in the subjects that you are failling, go to your teacher and ask for help. When you are learning, foget about your problems. If you have to focus on yourself for 2 hrs, do so because you deserve to get a good grade for all you have been through. So, pick up yourself, stop dwelling on the past, move foward by learning all that you can and you will see a great change. If you want you can; go for it.