Well, here's what happened:

I was depressed and I moved away from home. This was at another college. (As I said, I've got a 3.6 gpa now at the college I'm at now, so I'm doing fine.) When I was at that previous college, I was on academic probation, I had a handful of (admittedly crappy) roommates move out on me because they were apparently terrified of my depressed and anxious ***, I didn't keep the room halfway clean, I wasn't terribly hygienic, I generally ACTED distressed, and at one point my menstrual period became a 14-day cluster-you-know-what and I ended up in the emergency room.

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Eek, I'm not sure what a '14-day cluster' is. Whatever it is, it really doesn't seem fair to say you screwed up. You acted the way you felt. That is HEALTHY. Also, it sounds like you had little support, which is a horrible situation to be in when you are depressed. There were reasons you neglected things, like not cleaning your room. Maybe depression left you too low to do anything about it. Perhaps your anxiety paralysed you and you were unable to take care of things. And even worse, roomates just moved out on you instead of doing the humane and decent thing - trying to get you the help you needed. My mood gets worse when I have my period, so I'm not surprised crisis hit then.