yeah so i went into college and had an interview with someone and i was accepted for college next year,
i am repeating a year bc i dropped out half way through last year so i need to make up for it, i lost my confidence doing social care and got into counselling this year to make up for it and now i’m going back to finish what i started.
its going to be hard and i have been trying to remember stuff from 2 yrs ago and have been looking through old papers but my memory is so bad its hard to retain things from so far back, just need to jog my memory hopefully somethings have stuck.
but its going to be very hard, i am worried i might not be able to do it but i have been told i will get a lot more opportunities this way for the future,
i also will have to do a placement and that is actually something i am looking forward to but i know it will be hard.
i spoke to my support worker about this and i said i think i am doing better than most people with my schizophrenia and i said i dont want to be a lazy waster that doesnt want to do anything, i said that bc i am better now and i am more able to do something that i want to do something,
she said that it wasnt my fault that i was sick and not to feel bad about not working and things and its true it wasnt really my fault it was just the cards i was dealt and God knows who was dealing but now i have been given another hand and i’ll just have to try and keep my cards close to my chest, hedge my bets.
i remember like it was yesterday all the hassle i was having the last time, praying it doesnt happen again but i remember your support @SurprisedJ at that time
i needed this forum, i think it was early 2014 about febuary, things just went belly up.
Great news!
I am doing final year of degree this September
I got through the first year although I almost quit but teacher and mentors encouraged me to stay
Don’t give up and keep positive
If I can do it so can you I still have schiz issues
that gives me hope, i cant even imagine doing a degree
i talk to a girl on a chat and she is finishing her masters soon, stuff like that just blows me away,
i dont think i can do uni tbh like i’m not going to close the door but i have to be realistic and i have a few problems as well, i’ll be happy if i can get a nice little well paid job at first maybe not 9-5 but who knows what can happen, i’ve been told to take baby steps.
Congrats, that’s awesome! Good on you for pushing towards recovery so relentlessly. Thanks also for sharing the positive, not enough good news often enough around here.
thx @pixel i really want to make some new friends on top of the ones i have already made at college,
i am still in contact with a couple of girls from college a few years ago and they are both 20 now and one has a kid, i have been going over and watching a film, sharing a pizza with her and she comes over to mine sometimes as well, it just for a bit of company nothing more and so i am going over Sunday night again for a night with them both, they are a lot of fun.
its great having friends, its never boring and they like me enough to spend time with me so i must be doing something right, we are hoping to get away for a week in a caravan over the holiday season as well.
but i remember your support