dont kow what to do anymore .........

im 18 years old and in my final year of high school, I never procrastinated or wasted time. But now I don't feel like going to school anymore as all of my actions seem futile because no matter how hard I try I always end up disappointed(grade wise), hence I'm always absent from school. I've lost interest in all things school related, even the stuff I loved to do like drawing, or making stuff(electronics).

My grades have dropped from what they used to be because I don't see the use in studying or going to school anymore, its gotten so worse that I almost failed my first semester.
And eventually when I do go to school I'm either day dreaming or doodling or thinking about what I could have been up to if I hadn't gone to school that day.

I don't know what to do anymore as my chances for going to a university next year are next to nothing as my grades have taken a dip and my family wont understand what I'm going through........................................

I feel lost and don't know what or where to go from here...

Hi and welcome to Psych Central. Could there be a reason that you have lost interest in all activities? Are you sleeping OK? Do you still hang out with your friends? Im just wondering if you could be depressed and that is why you have lost interest in everything. Maybe talking with a counselor could be helpful in narrowing down what is going on for you. Can you talk to your parents about getting help before you get too far behind? You will find lots of support here on PC. again, welcome.

I guess sometimes we have to look at alternatives and pick one, even if it is not great, work toward it until something more useful comes along for us; it's kind of like living in the jungle and going vine to vine, tree to tree until you get to Tarzan's house

I would go to school and work to graduate so I can at least have that degree behind me. I would think about getting a job, maybe saving some money and planning for university, if I thought I might want to continue with school in the future.

My three stepsons all dropped out of university, some after less than one year, and they are all doing well now, in their 30's and 40's.

What is right in front of us is only tentative, a stepping stone usually to what's coming down the pike; doing as well as you can with where you are can help with the next step; just sitting down and refusing to jump to the next stone in any direction doesn't do anything for us, might cause us difficulty if all the next stones get full of other people chosing to jump in that direction so you can't move. Not moving makes it easier to get boxed in?

My husband worked for a radio/TV repair shop in the 1950's when he was 14, learned what he could and was in the right place so when he decided to work at the radio station as engineer, they had a problem and their engineer wasn't available and he presented himself to the general manager who told him if he could fix whatever it was that was broken, the job was his. Guess what :-) Then another good thing happened when one of the DJ's on Sunday or something came in drunk and the technical guy had to tell the GM on the phone, "But there's no one else here, just the kid!" and the GM said, "Then put the kid on!" He eventually had his own teenager's show/hour and was sent to interview Fats Domino and other famous music people of the time and DJ dances for the teens, etc.

My husband's love of electronics got him into a full scholarship work/study program with the State University where he was flying on Navy jets and doing radar electronics when he wasn't in class. His first job out of school was shooting electronic rocket payloads off in the Arctic, at the Aurora Borealis, to see what it was made of.

You don't know what is going to be in your future, what might pop up. The more personalized you can make it by studying/working on learning what you want to know, the more likely it will be that much more exciting to you. I still remember working at the same company my husband did, looking at him as a design engineer and looking at the other engineer managers and how happy he was versus them because he was doing real engineering versus their managing other engineers. Find a passion and pursue it!

is it just school or have you lost interests in many things (social, personal, etc)? Have you changed eating habits, sleeping habits, etc? Is the work just boring? There could be many things.