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I recommend putting your mental health first. If it is that much of an issue, delaying help will only hurt you in the long run. I recommend going to your school’s counselor or mental health services, telling them the situation and coming up with a plan. Pair with a therapist or in patient facility that can provide you structure. As for your friends, it’s fine. It’s better to take care of this now. It’s a sacrifice you’ll have to make, but it’ll mean so much in the future.
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I am in treatment, but it’s in another city, so traveling takes me three hours in total. I struggle a lot with sexual OCD (mainly POCD). Which is very disturbing and takes a lot of energy on bad days. Also this whole “perfectionist” issue, where I seriously break down whenever I don’t get a 100% on an assignment at school because I believe my future is ruined. That’s why I spend ages working on it. Another issue is my magical thinking and more random, short lived obsessions/compulsions. I spent a couple of months where I had to blink thirteen times whenever I saw the number “13”. I would probably be able to stay in touch with some friends online, however they’d move out of town after HS, so I’d be left all alone.
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You won’t look stupid. They’ll be happy you made the right choice. It’s worth it.
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I took time off from school to get treatment for OCD and it was a great decision for me but your situation may be different. You are right that too much time on your hands is not a good thing for people with OCD because it allows us to ruminate. What are your symptoms? Are you getting any treatment? Would you still be able to stay in contact with your friends if you left school? Sending encouragement.
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I have spoken a bit with my counselor, but I did say no yesterday when given the option. So now I feel stupid if I go back and change my mind, partly because I am incredibly indecisive
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Thanks ❤️
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- 24w
so I feel like I’m finally having an academic comeback after years of failing & I’m currently looking at pinterest for that motivation. there are videos that are helpful tools for college students like websites that read chapter books and summarize/create notes & it seems pretty cool. but I somehow deny using those tools bc it feels like I’m cheating. my mind is like, “no, you will study the TRADITIONAL way (which idek what it rlly is)” I don’t know why my brain is doing this to me. I feel like these apps could be beneficial to my learning. what’s ironic is that I literally googled all my assignment answers for one class at the last minute to get some grades in. this is a retake class but because I was so behind on everything, I just looked up the answers. so that really does count as cheating. like bruh 😭 I did it to save myself from a bad class grade. I’m definitely going to study the rest of this semester. I have officially began taking notes and actually doing schoolwork. someone help me!!! these videos look like great resources but my mind is telling me otherwise. another thing is that I’m still lost on what to major in. I keep changing career choices and my head’s gonna explode. there are so many things I wanna say but I don’t want the post to be long. I just want to get good grades and understand the material!!! someone help me >n<
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I had avoided a lot with school specifically, but I did do it in other areas of life as well. School for some reason has been the biggest trigger that sends me into avoidance and it has been for the longest time. Does anybody relate? If so, what did you do to help besides therapy? In high school I used to sit in the bathroom stalls for hours so I could avoid going to classes. I was struggling to keep up because my OCD makes me perfect my school work so much so to the point where I’d never turn it in because I’d never be satisfied with what I’d produce. I’d get so incredibly frustrated with myself and the fact that I could never meet my own standards, never mind the rubrics given. I took ages analyzing all my writing, all my answers, all my google slides and I burnt myself out. So I stopped trying. I stopped turning in work because I’d never be satisfied. I’d cry because I felt I wasn’t good enough. Then I’d be missing assignments, getting them done but not submitting them because I was too ashamed. So, I avoided classes because I’d be in trouble or be called out for not getting anything done. Unfortunately this habit bled into my first year of college last year, and OCD coupled up with depression, made going to the dining hall and attending classes even worse. So I avoided it all together. It’s so hard being a freshman in college, so so hard. I unfortunately failed out of that school but I tried to medically withdraw either semester. No, I wasn’t partying, or drinking or smoking or hanging with the wrong people. I was a college freshman struggling with ocd and depression. I’m trying to not make excuses for myself either because I’m well aware this is my fault and I’m trying to reverse it now at community college. Right now I’m trying to get those Fs turned into Ws from my old school so I can fix my gpa. I want to transfer, I want to be a forensic psychologist, I want to be independent, I want to be ok. It’s gonna take me so long to transfer from community college but that’s on me. I’m willing to put in the work. I’m so embarassed, please help me.
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- 17w
I’m in a class with a majority (basically all) people a grade younger than me because I messed up my schedule. it will be like this next year too, because the class that i’m in next year my grade already took this past year. I messed up , and now my friends ask me about it and treat me like younger than them and like below them kind of. and they’re not bad friends, but it is embarrassing bec what i did is just not normal. i’ve tried to keep it on the dl from people because they judge. I know i’m probably overthinking it but i’m scared my friends are gonna leave me because all they talk about is the class that they’re in that i’m not in and leave me because I’m behind. it’s really stupid that i’m not really a part of my own grade anymore, and it ruined my school years that i am currently in (at least that’s what it feels like). basically im scared that i’m going to be lonely the rest of these years and sad and it’s all because of a choice I made, even though i hope they wouldn’t do that.:(
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