My issues revolve around both my physical and mental health tag playing off of each other to the extent that I can't focus on anything else. I end up dropping everything school related in the middle of the semester so I can get better physically and or mentally, but when I come back, there's no way I can catch up, even with an extension on my coursework, and have to be administratively withdrawn from my courses. I can plan on bipolar disorder easily enough, given that the seasonal aspect is pretty consistent for me, but when my body repeatedly fails to act it's age courtesy of a genetic disorder that causes me chronic diseases better found in people thirty to forty years my senior and many, many cancer scares, my stress compounds.

The other source of my stress is that someone in the bureaucracy has changed the metric that has kept me in school. It's not simply failing my courses that would get me in trouble academically and financially. Not completing them falls in the same category now, which seems like semantics until you realize administrative withdrawals and course extensions are now treated like me counting cards in Vegas rather than legitimate medical excuses.

I have a single paper from a single course which merited a single extension. Now I'm not sure I'll be able to get my scholarships, financial aid and the like.