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I have no idea how I finished my degree.
I had my second run in with psychosis in my second year, and I fought hard to pass my course despite having massive issues with my mental health.
It’s a proud moment, and I think my family were happy that I graduated.
Only a few months later I went missing due to psychosis taking over and I got found in a near by city completely out of my mind.
It took about a week for other people to understand my speech after being administered hospital doses of lots of AP’s and Benzos.
Mess really, but no one can take that achievement away from me
Why do you want to know?
It means nothing, I have a physiotherapy major degree and can’t work or even volunteer. Education means nothing, education is not life or social skills. What’s the point if you’re Einstein but your social skills are 0 and can’t put your education in practice?
They have really good support services now and more awareness.
You can also get specialist study skills mentors who can help you.
If you have a diagnosis of course.
Try not to be so negative about everything @Aziz
You’re an angry dude. My mother had type 1 diabetes all her life. She was poor and in and out of hospitals a lot. She was incredibly intelligent but could do nothing with it. Yet she never complained and always had a smile on her face. I don’t know how she survived really.
Graduated high school and took three courses -
The first (art course) I never really started due to my avolition
The second was a dressmaking course which I almost gave up on but finished. Didn’t get a certificate for some reason though
The third was an intensive islamic course which is almost dropped out of too, as my sza returned but my husband and his mother made me finish. Funny enough I got no certificate for that either.
Wanted to go to varsity after school but then my sza happened and I never went. Now it’s too late - not because of my age but my sza causes avolition and I can’t complete tasks very well
There is no option for skilled trades such as car mechanics, plumbers, welders, electricians, technicians etc…
I am taking diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and schizophrenia meds which does nothing to my severe negative symptoms. I stay in bed all day everyday, only get up to eat and play video games 1-2x a week. I was 127lb before sz, now 300+lb. I don’t know what’s happy about it. Well at least I am not completely paralyzed. Sz is ranked as 2nd most disabling disease after complete paralysis.
I got a certificate attending a mickey mouse event.
A piece of paper Can Mean a lot.
If you keep working and never give up I bet you could have it too.
Volunteer work means a lot also these days.
Never give up.
These days the skilled trades can make more than college.
I would say 12th grade when I used to sell joints at morning break, smoke my own product and then go sit through Physics class.
school with a Dr’s in motors and some college …… had a stroke and schizophrenia and don’t do much with it.
O levels which was regarded as equivalent to a high school diploma . First psych admission was the start of the term I was due to take A levels . Apart from a short attempt at doing a history A level correspondence course between late 1975 and early 1976 I’ve done nothing academic since that 1st psych admission .
There have been attempts to try to get me to go to college. However severe social phobia as a result of severe bullying , and a failure for learning difficulties to be recognised , and help given for , has always held me back.
I finished my Masters degree in a subject i didnt like. Foolish. I was easily influenced and never really got - or took! - the room to know what i myself wanted.
I now finally learned what i do and dont like and wonder if i could do a second Master. Maybe with all the mental health issues and financial limitations it isnt possible, but i would like to.
I graduated from a bachelor I didn´t like and from which I´ve never worked from. I´m now, since diagnosed, on my second year of a new bachelor I enjoy very much.
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