Explinations for vanishing wolves
Posted 12th January 2009 at 11:13 PM by Overread
Well I guess its about time I give a bit of an explination as to where I have been vanishing off to recently.
Well its tricky to pick a starting point for this so I guess the best way is to go all the way back to the beginning with things and go from there.
First off a bit of backing to last year - the year before I was attacked just after Christmas - result was a broken cheek bone and a few weeks off uni. That rather broke things for that year so out I came with the intent of returning the next year for a fresh start and to finish the work. However during that long summer holiday (and it was long - the time I was doing the building work) I lost the data for my dissertation. This is where things first took their downturn and changes - especailly in my behavour. Unlike my more normal self I hid this fact for the first term up until winter - after that I became more withdrawn ( in the summer term) and stopped attending lectures - which was when it was spotted and things came out.
I was lucky and I was given a second chance to come back to a total restart for the 3rd year. So back again last Autumn I started again - but only a month in and my required trips to reserach my new dissertation data stopped - even now I am not totally sure why I stopped going, but I did. Things kept plugging along during the lecture side (my dissertation being in another uni due to my lecturer moving there) and things remains unnoticed till late last term when pressure mounted on me again and I slipping to the hiding again. (even from here - strange as I kept up with some other site, but I just could not come here - and face things a bit)
Well things came out sooner this time (somehow I think I resulted in some departmental changes to supervision of students last time around!) and again I am back at the drawing board. This time, however, have been recomended to see the counseling service as well as my gp and after seeing both they (as well as my parents and lecturers) belive that I have suffered from a form of depression. After consulting with my GP I am now on a course of medication (nothing amazingly strong since it has not been classed as extreme depression - the test said mildly depressed - that was after a good christmas away).
So I am back at uni now and tomorrow is the day I go in to sort things again - not sure what will happen or be said, though my department have remained posetive and supportive - so here is hoping for good things.
And so that is where the wolf has been!
Well its tricky to pick a starting point for this so I guess the best way is to go all the way back to the beginning with things and go from there.
First off a bit of backing to last year - the year before I was attacked just after Christmas - result was a broken cheek bone and a few weeks off uni. That rather broke things for that year so out I came with the intent of returning the next year for a fresh start and to finish the work. However during that long summer holiday (and it was long - the time I was doing the building work) I lost the data for my dissertation. This is where things first took their downturn and changes - especailly in my behavour. Unlike my more normal self I hid this fact for the first term up until winter - after that I became more withdrawn ( in the summer term) and stopped attending lectures - which was when it was spotted and things came out.
I was lucky and I was given a second chance to come back to a total restart for the 3rd year. So back again last Autumn I started again - but only a month in and my required trips to reserach my new dissertation data stopped - even now I am not totally sure why I stopped going, but I did. Things kept plugging along during the lecture side (my dissertation being in another uni due to my lecturer moving there) and things remains unnoticed till late last term when pressure mounted on me again and I slipping to the hiding again. (even from here - strange as I kept up with some other site, but I just could not come here - and face things a bit)
Well things came out sooner this time (somehow I think I resulted in some departmental changes to supervision of students last time around!) and again I am back at the drawing board. This time, however, have been recomended to see the counseling service as well as my gp and after seeing both they (as well as my parents and lecturers) belive that I have suffered from a form of depression. After consulting with my GP I am now on a course of medication (nothing amazingly strong since it has not been classed as extreme depression - the test said mildly depressed - that was after a good christmas away).
So I am back at uni now and tomorrow is the day I go in to sort things again - not sure what will happen or be said, though my department have remained posetive and supportive - so here is hoping for good things.
And so that is where the wolf has been!
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It is nice to see you 'round again, and I hope the talk with uni worked out ok.Posted 14th January 2009 at 09:47 PM by BookStop
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thanks Bookstop -
meeting worked out well - though as yet nothing much is sorted - many of the staff are on holiday in spain (first year field trip is what they call it
). However the staff I have spoken to have made posetive sounds so all should be good (its up to me now)Posted 14th January 2009 at 11:04 PM by Overread -
Wow OR, good to see you back, was a little worried about you there.
If it helps, in my 3rd year of my first degree attempt I refused to leave the house for 4 months, it was not untill much later that I realised that I must have been suffering from depression.
Just hang in and know that we are all here if you need to bend someones earPosted 14th January 2009 at 11:16 PM by Wybren - Thanks WyPosted 14th January 2009 at 11:29 PM by Overread
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Me too, wolfie. While I've never been afflicted with it, I know several others (two extremely closely) who have, and have experienced the debilitating effects it can have. Wishing confidence and tenacity for you, OR.Posted 18th January 2009 at 03:33 PM by Grimward -
welcome back, OR. i think there's a lot of people here who do understand the effects this can have on someone's life.
keep on keeping on.Posted 25th January 2009 at 10:50 AM by chopper 
- Hmm, hope things work out very well for you from this point forward!
It is great to find a fellow archaeology nut, my ultimate goal is my doctorate in it, but that is a long ways away. The Masters has to come first. So much to do and so much to learn, don't let it get you down. It took me over ten years to get my Bachelors, I hated school. Loved learning but hated school. I do wish I had just gotten it sooner, but I found myself not happy at all and ended up wandering off just two classes shy of my Associates to do other things for a while. Best of luck to you!Posted 27th January 2009 at 02:19 AM by Saeltari - And so, a semester (more, I guess!) later, how is it going, Mr. Wolf? Better, I hope?Posted 3rd July 2009 at 07:44 AM by Grimward
