Drstock, funny your thread - in the non-funny sense, may I add!
LEAST YOU QUALIFIED.........
I'm such a strong person always the one everyone comes to and to such an extent I think people see me as immortal or something , like I can't hurt or I'm never affected by things.
After years of family stress read my posts if interested BUT it was the PGCE course that finished me off! So sorry but that was the icing on the cake , 2 little kids newly bought house , course work coming out of my ears and placement miles away from where I live, AWFUL AWFUL, post graduate courses should cater for post graduates, in that your a little older and therefore may have baggage but it was more than full time because we were at uni all week , all day & then course work course work then preparation for placement and then physically going on placement.
This was academic year 2010/11 sooooo am I qualified ????NO - breakdown of that February and only now have I got back into some kind of teacher related role as a volunteer ( reference purposes ) for a charity based exclusion center for 14-16 year olds.
My career is ruined , I trained in bioscience and got 1.2 % of a first. Gutted a young mum struggling to gain a degree , which I did and then to finally try and make a career for myself and at the last hurdle to fall, just awful, soul destroying , I'm soooo ambitious BUT for the sake of my kids & myself I had no choice other than to leave the course , half way through!!! Money situation with a new house - dire!!!!! The stress couldn't get benefits, awful awful!
Don't know what the future holds I'm 31, bit of a funny age young BUT older.
Never ever had panic attacks before in my entire life & now I know how bad these things are, gosh I never knew they could destroy people's lives.
Take good care of yourself