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Tue, 31 October 2006 14:09

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
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... a few weeks into term, with work piling up left, right and centre, the end not yet in sight, when I feel very gloomy, bordering on depressed.

It has happened so far in my university career during my second term, the start of my third term, my fourth and fifth terms to a lesser degree, not my sixth because fortunately the work was lighter and more enjoyable then; and now it is my seventh of nine and it is back again.

It's not very often I post specifically asking for support, but I suppose this is the point at which I should. I've been wondering, in fact, for the last couple of days whether it might be a good therapeutic move to try and stay away from here for a couple of weeks and see how it goes; in the past couple of weeks I've been rather argumentative and not as kind and pleasant as I would have liked myself to be, and I don't think this has helped my mood in any way.

Part of it is that my schedule is even less structured than it has been in the past. I'm no longer procrastinating on the level I was once, but I'm doing something which is undoubtedly related: I am worrying about work so much that it consumes virtually all of my time and leaves me no point to relax. In academic work, I don't always have the self-confidence to believe I can do something it until I have the completed work in front of me. Unfortunately the work we're doing at the moment is long and drawn out, so there's no immediate prospect of that. I find it much, much easier to work on something single-mindedly for a few days and get it out of the way, but because of the way the course is structured that is not an option.

I wonder if I should go onto antidepressants again; this is definitely a mild form of depression rather than mere unhappiness. I am determined not to give up my course (I could never forgive myself if I did), but having so many weeks (seven months, in fact) of work stretching out ahead with not much to look forward to except graduation really does get me down.

Hmm. I dunno what to add -- if there was a clear source of action (beyond "stop worrying"; "find something to take your mind off the work", neither of which has helped so far) I would have taken it.

Please no sarcastic comments about how I shouldn't be at university if I am not enjoying it.

I also ought to take this opportunity to apologise to anyone if I have seemed rude or over-persistent(/pedantic) recently; the latter, I think is some sort of coping mechanism, though not always a very good one!

Hugs and best wishes to everyone. Thank you for reading this.

David

		Well, it's come to that time again ... By: Deeej on Tue, 31 October 2006 14:09
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: marc on Tue, 31 October 2006 14:57
		Thank you, Marc. By: Deeej on Tue, 31 October 2006 19:16
		Re: Thank you, Marc. By: marc on Tue, 31 October 2006 23:34
		Re: Thank you, Marc. By: Deeej on Tue, 31 October 2006 23:48
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: NW on Tue, 31 October 2006 15:04
		Term-time By: Deeej on Tue, 31 October 2006 19:24
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: timmy on Tue, 31 October 2006 15:46
		Light boxes By: Deeej on Tue, 31 October 2006 19:30
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: thirdfencepost on Tue, 31 October 2006 16:07
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: Jedediah on Tue, 31 October 2006 16:49
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: Deeej on Tue, 31 October 2006 23:52
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: timmy on Tue, 31 October 2006 17:41
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: Teddy on Thu, 02 November 2006 02:02
		Exercise By: Deeej on Tue, 31 October 2006 19:32
		Re: Exercise By: Aussie on Tue, 31 October 2006 23:11
		Re: Exercise By: marc on Tue, 31 October 2006 23:25
		Or maybe ... By: Deeej on Wed, 01 November 2006 00:00
		Re: Exercise By: marc on Tue, 31 October 2006 23:28
		Re: Exercise By: Aussie on Wed, 01 November 2006 00:26
		Re: Exercise By: Aussie on Wed, 01 November 2006 01:10
		Sage By: Nigel on Wed, 01 November 2006 08:42
		Re: Exercise By: Deeej on Tue, 31 October 2006 23:43
		Re: Exercise By: Aussie on Wed, 01 November 2006 00:58
		Sage oil By: Nigel on Wed, 01 November 2006 08:44
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: saben on Wed, 01 November 2006 00:04
		Classes By: Deeej on Wed, 01 November 2006 00:47
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: kupuna on Wed, 01 November 2006 00:16
		Getting out By: Deeej on Wed, 01 November 2006 01:09
		I think you may already have turned the corner ... By: cossie on Wed, 01 November 2006 02:11
		Corner-turning By: Deeej on Wed, 01 November 2006 02:43
		Well, it's necessarily a subjective judgement ... By: cossie on Wed, 01 November 2006 03:13
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: Teddy on Wed, 01 November 2006 05:33
		Re: Well, it's come to that time again ... By: ZeroGrav on Wed, 01 November 2006 05:50

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