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I live in Minneapolis and I am beginning to feel the first effects of winter. The temperatures are beginning to decrease in the northern hemisphere and they will continue to do so until February of 2008. The trees are starting to turn yellow at the very top and every morning when I wake up to go to school the light outside of my window is darker and darker. Pretty soon it will be pitch dark when i wake up and I will gather my clothes and go down to my basement to take a shower. I make sure that I have my clean clothes ready for the day and throw them down next to the dehumidifier that is set right next to the door to the bathroom. Then I go into the laundry room and get myself a towel. It is very cold and dark in the basement at this time in the morning. I turn on the shower and make sure that it is the right temperature before I get in. When I find a nice temperature, I step into the green shower. I shower for about 5 minutes before getting back out and dressing the in the darkness just outside the bathroom door. The green lights from the controls of the dehumidifier light up the space immediately surrounding me and it comforts me. I look out the window in the game room and I see that the sun is beginning to come up. There is a lot of snow on the ground. Then I quickly get dressed outside the dehumidifier and run upstairs to get my back pack. Once I have gathered everything that I need my and my mom head out the door in our conversion fan. first we stop at holiday to pick up a few Krispy Kremes. They taste mighty good right now. it is warm in side fo the Holiday Station Store, and the Krispy Kremes are only 75 cents each, so I get three. I am also sure to grab a Hot Chocolate Moca Mix from the coffee makers. We walk up to the bald man who is the cashier at this time in the morning. My mom bought some coffee. Coffee is very cheap at super America. We pay for our items and head out into the cold dark morning back into our conversion fan. It is in the conversion van that I notice how hot these hot chocolate actually is. I can feel the thermal energy protruding from the cup at a high rate. The air around the cup feels very warm, and it makes me wonder how much heat that cup of coffee is actually losing in this frigid temperatures. I manage to snarl down the donuts before I arrive at my destination; Inver Hills Community College. I get out of my mom’s conversion fan and we say our goodbyes. I throw the trash from Super America into a nearby receptacle and walk down the steps down to the main plaza of the college. I stand outside the doors of the library to let my coffee cool down. I notice that the campus is still being illuminated by the bright lights that they keep on overnight. There must not be enough sunlight hitting the lights censors yet to turn them off. They keep on shining. After about 5 minutes of standing outside in the cold I walk into the library through the doors. I am now inside the waiting center outside of the library. I have two options. I can either go through the door to the computer lab or I can go through the door to the library. I haven’t spent much time in the computer lab this semester so I decide to go into the library to study my books on Physics and Meteorology. They are both fascinating subjects. Near the desk that I usually sit in there is a large section of psychology books located right behind me. I have read a few of the books, especially the college textbooks and I must say that I find that field of Psychology to be very interesting. However, my real interest lies in math and physics. I want to be an engineer when I transfer to another college. I see Jim Hewitt (one of the math teachers here at Inver) walking back to his office. (He is the only teacher in the school with an office in the library) I did not know who he was yet. I assumed that he was a librarian because I would not be in his math class until spring semester. Afterall, it was still fall semester and the winter was only just beginning. We had only received a few snow falls at our location this season and they were all light. I liked Physics lecture. The instructor made it very interesting I must say.
When I walked down the stairs to Inver Hills one morning I heard “Rocking around the Christmas tree” playing inside one of the maintenance rooms. That cheered me up, because it reminded me that there were only 5 damn days left in the semester and after that I would be able to enjoy my break. That is what it reminded me of. This semester was finally over. Now it was time for winter break. Right now I am just starting Fall Semester 07 and I am already starting to freak out about all of these classes and these books. Does anybody have any good advice on how to cope with stress during school, especially when you have mental disorders like depression and Avoidant Personality Disorder?
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hi there.
im afraid i dont have much advice about surviving school except to make the effort to get a therapist or some sort of support system set up because you dont have to do it all by yourself. i just finished school last june and have been with my therapist since the july before that. before i had a solid therapist i could trust it was torture. i have anxiety and depression and it would routinely get the better of me to the extent of missing exams and having to extend my studies by a whole year. i empathise so much. you dont have to do this alone. for coping with the stress of school head for the computer lab sometimes instead of the library and talk to us here. and find someone to talk to in 3D. you are worth the effort. good luck, biiv |
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