I am just amazed with the man who worked with me today. I was actually brought to tears, not like a few tears but like heaving sob tears by his kindness. I really wish I had gone there earlier.
Anyways since I know generally big groups like universities/businesses/etc don’t like doling out extra services and will make you jump through hoops to get the help you need, I was prepared to really argue. All I wanted was for my rats to be able to live with me this summer. It ended up being him convincing me to get access to all of these services! He showed me practically a whole world of things that would make life with my illness so much better and probably would have saved me immense trouble in school had I known about them!!
For example note taking. I thought that was only offered if you were like deaf or blind or physically ill so you couldn’t come to class often. I had no idea they offered it for those with mental illness so that you can get notes taken even when your symptoms are acting up and you can’t pay attention. That would be huge for me as I have failed classes due to my complete inability to focus when depressed or psychotic. And I ended up bringing up how some nights I dealt with really traumatic things due to my symptoms and then the next morning had to take quizzes or tests and inevitably failed them for that reason and he said I was able to schedule make ups through them!
There were so many things I couldve done to help myself and instead I always waited around for someone else to help me. (My old therapist was actually supposed to set me up with these people years ago and never did because she sucked). And at first I didn’t want any of those things because I didn’t think it was fair to other people but he talked with me about how my negative beliefs were controlling my treatment of myself and that I deserve to make my life the best for me so I can function to the best of my ability. And he said so many other just very kind things and even gave me his home phone number to call him on.
I haven’t had a person move me to tears from their kindness since I met GOD. It restored my faith in humanity and made my dried up rock heart get a little warmth back in it. I plan on sending him a warm thank you note when all this has been settled. He went above and beyond his duty.