![[dr. bob]](/dr-bob-sm.gif)
Dr. Bob is Robert Hsiung, MD,
bob@dr-bob.orgShown: posts 1 to 6 of 6. This is the beginning of the thread.
Posted by rjlockhart37 on August 27, 2012, at 19:28:54
This is not how I planned it, I should be standing proud my myself and off with an acting and financial careers...start a whole new life...the only way if im gonna make success is when I get back in college...and find alot of tutors..i seriously have to have people asssiting me during acidemic terms...i hate school but its the only option until I get the career decided.
I have made it clear not to have jobs that make me look bad...im not saying anything bad about that...but im seriously a career driven person, not a welder, but there's many smart people who are in construction buisness.
I'm sick of posting all this invalid mental junk that never gets any danm responses.
Posted by papillon2 on August 28, 2012, at 9:46:42
In reply to family affairs, posted by rjlockhart37 on August 27, 2012, at 19:28:54
Does your college have a disability service? They can be really helpful with accommodations. It pays to come to them with a list of what you need, though, as they don't always know how to help. You'll need a letter from your doctor outlining why each accommodation is important, too. There should be a list available from your college about all the typical accommodations available to students with a disability.
I had to quit uni because I was too unwell, but when I was trying to make it work I had the following accommodations:
- being able to record lectures on a tape they provided. This was to assist with concentration problems during lectures.
- being able to take exams in a quieter, smaller room (less distractions) and being given an extra 5 or 10 minutes reading time for exams.An accommodation offered to me which I didn't take was access to 'quiet rooms' they had for disability service students if you needed a time out.
Additional accommodations which I would have begged for had I known they existed would have been:
- receiving lecture and tutorial notes / worksheets (the disability service paid students hand picked for this purpose) = an academic lifeline when I couldn't attend lectures or tutorials due to illness.
- extensions for hand-in assessments which I could not complete in time due to illness.
- increased flexibility in the number of tutorials required to attend in order to pass (i.e. not being penalized if I couldn't attend some tutes due to being sick).The above would have made so much of a difference. Being able to record a lecture or having extra time in exams is pretty much useless if you can't actually get to many classes in the first place.
So yeah, do your research on what's available to you before you go in so you can be your best advocate. I got the distinct feeling that they didn't think my mental illness was as disabling was it was (is). If I had been better prepared, by knowing what was available and coming in with a list of what I needed and why, maybe I'd have got the extra help I needed.
Good luck in your studies!
Posted by gadchik on August 29, 2012, at 8:55:46
In reply to family affairs, posted by rjlockhart37 on August 27, 2012, at 19:28:54
Good luck to you. Thanks for saying that smart people are in the construction business! I own a construction business,with my husband. Ive just gotten back into the daily workings of it,and love working now. If you find work that fullfills you,no matter what it is,could be anything,then you are on the right track.
Posted by Phillipa on August 29, 2012, at 19:10:05
In reply to Re: family affairs, posted by gadchik on August 29, 2012, at 8:55:46
Gadchik you and hubby work together. That is so nice. P
Posted by chicagokat on August 31, 2012, at 14:03:13
In reply to family affairs, posted by rjlockhart37 on August 27, 2012, at 19:28:54
I am so sorry yoou are feeling bad, and I sympathize with you; I've lost my jobecause of this damn depression and anxiety. I was a pharmacist and now I'm nothing.literally nothing. I used to feel like an accoplished, intelligent person who contributed something to the community. noow i'm nothing, and that's how i feel, like i'm truly nothing, that i don't deserve to be here.
annyways, enough about me. I truly hope things get better for you, i'm sorry i'm going though a crisis and i can't think of anything specfic to suggest toyou, but it seems like some of the other posters had some good ideas. just know that there are people who really understand how you feel, and I for one care a lot. those of us with severe psychological diseases have to stick together, b/c others may care but they really don't understand how truly awful it is.
Kat
Posted by TemporarilyBob on September 7, 2012, at 11:11:30
In reply to family affairs, posted by rjlockhart37 on August 27, 2012, at 19:28:54
I've worked on Wall Street for the likes of Chase, Citibank, Lehman Brothers and Barclays. Believe me, there are plenty more stupid people there than anywhere else. If aspiring to bring some intelligence to the financial world is a goal of yours, the Godspeed ... we need it now more than ever.
This is the end of the thread.
Psycho-Babble Social | Extras | FAQ
Dr. Bob is Robert Hsiung, MD,
bob@dr-bob.org
Script revised: February 4, 2008
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/cgi-bin/pb/mget.pl
Copyright 2006-17 Robert Hsiung.
Owned and operated by Dr. Bob LLC and not the University of Chicago.