As of last night, I completed graduate school! I will have a master's degree in clinical and counseling psychology.

Graduation is on May 17th.

Then it's on for the doctoral starting in August.

What a rough road it has been. Particularly the last year, I saw almost no time in my schooling go by without some part of my illness getting stirred up. I went through two, pretty long depressive episodes-- through them, I kept up with school, and made it through my internship, having to take a little time off because of the depression. I remember during the first of the two episodes, sitting in an 8-hour, Saturday, techniques of counseling class, barely able to see the blackboard as I fought off the tears of depression. There were times when I did not think I ould make it.

But I did. I did.