So I just got an email saying that I have lost my financial aid for the Spring 2018 year due to my gpa staying below a 2.0 (1.8) for a second semester. I am planning on sending in an appeal to the FA Office. I have already contacted my therapist I was seeing over the summer for clinical depression/anxiety to get a letter from her on my visits and diagnosis (I also think I may have Borderline Personality Disorder, however I just talked to the on campus counseling center about this and was planning to get a referral from them in the new year to go to one of their partners to see about getting a possible diagnosis of this (of course if I don’t have it then that’s great, but most things about BPD really resonate with me so I’m thinking I do) but I wasn’t going to put anything about this in my appeal considering I do not have a formal diagnosis on it as of now). I saw a counselor for most of the summer and then when I went back to school I thought I was okay.
Between Spring 2017 and Fall 2017 I lost pretty much all of my support system that I had at my school. After leaving my past counseling center and realizing that I was starting to get bad again (beginning of October) I immediately contacted the Counseling center at school to set up an appointment and the earliest appointment date was the last day of October however when that day came around I was extremely sick and unable to leave my apartment and rescheduled for the first week of December and by that time exams were already full swing. I actually did really well on all of my final exams making nothing less than a B+ on all (except for math of which I was planning to take a lower level next semester).
Spring 2016 and Fall 2016 I was doing well in school, my gpa was on the rise so I will definitely put something about how I was doing well before I lost my support system/started struggling more with my depression/anxiety. I did go to the hospital because I was so worried one night and I was kept overnight in the psychiatric unit, I don’t think I am going to put anything about that in my letter however because the main reason I went was because I wasn’t able to get into the counseling center for another week and I needed to see/talk/get medication right then (I had ran out of Paxil and I don’t know if anyone is familiar with it but the withdrawal symptoms of it are TERRIBLE, and I never really liked Paxil much anyways it had stopped working for me, so I went and they prescribed me Wellbutrin which I loved! I feel like Wellbutrin has worked extremely well for me so far).
I literally just got the email about an hour ago and have already contacted everyone I needed to to get necessary documentation and I will write up a draft of my appeal letter, but… does anyone think there’s any hope for me to be granted this appeal? I don’t want them to think I am too unstable, because I really don’t think I am. I think the routine of college sort of helps me with my mental health problems to be honest. I won’t be able to go back to school without financial aid as I get the maximum aid available.