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hythloday Posts: 329
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I've had a great Wednesday so far! One of my great students who stopped coming to class for a week--she had emailed me that she was having mental health issues and bad reactions to medications--came into my office to apologize profusely for missing classes and she asked for extra work to make up for absences. I told her this was all very familiar territory for me: we talked about managing stress, etc., and I said, glancing at my gradebook, "jeepers, I must have forgotten to take attendance that week, so I'm going to assume that you really were in class--no extra work, just get through the semester...." Glad that my experience of an upsidedowninsideout home life could ease some of her troubles. Oh, and my youngest had a kickass report card (despite all the turmoil at home). Post edited by: hythloday, at: 03/28/2012 01:24 PM |
"I have suffered from depression most of my life, but had some long, non-depressed times. The last 16 years have been an on-going, constantly worsening nightmare for me medically, socially and with my family. 11/2008 to the present has been the worst time in my life, and new things just keep piling up. During that time I’ve gone from being mostly homebound to being totally homebound due to the errors of about 2 dozen doctors who overmedicated me so badly that I came home w/ 4 conditions I didn’t go in with. I spent months wanting to die, and finding MDJ may well have saved my life. It’s one of the worst feelings to know that nobody on earth needs you for anything; but now that I’ve been a group leader for awhile, there are people here who need me. Thanks MDJ." (Sylvia4648)
