<p>Alright... for some background information, a lot of personal crap went down during sophmore year in high school. I was diagnosed with severe anxiety and I had been battling depression for 2 years before that, and it really started to affect my grades. I'm normally a straight A student, but in sophmore year I ended up having a B in Algebra II Honors and a D in AP Chemistry. I just felt like a total failure. I was actually doing great first semester, all A's, but during the 2nd I had a mixture of B's, C's, and D's. Luckily, my final grades averaged most of them into an A, besides Algebra and Chem.
I'm just really scared that this is going to ruin my high school transcript - I want to be able to get into a decent college, but I failed a class!!
I'm also kinda concerned that the multitudes of bad academic habits I've developed during 2nd semester will carry on towards junior year (excessive cheating, procrastination, skipping class... please note I never had any of these habits before 10th grade D:), and knowing me, it likely will. I know it won't get better unless if I receive more help for my anxiety and depression - they're major distractions, but I'm unable to. My parents are too proud to really seek help, and even refused for my previous psychiatrist to prescribe me any more antidepressants.
So basically - How do I cope? I need to be able to concentrate on my schoolwork again and stop my nasty procrastinating habit that I recently developed, but I really need to improve my anxiety symptoms. It has prevented me from doing groupwork or speeches/projects I had to present (which means my teachers would just fail me when I didn't and therefore bring down my grades)
And how will 1 failed class affect my chances of getting into a decent college? I'm probably overly paranoid about it, but it's just been bothering me so much. If I explain why my grades in sophmore year are worse in my applications, will it excuse it?</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I totally understand how you feel. I went through a lot of anxiety and depression as well. My grades dropped and I felt really bad about myself too, like I felt that I wasn’t good for anything.
But don’t worry about anything. You’ve proven to yourself that you’re more than capable by achieving your aforementioned excellent grades. Everyone experiences a slight slip or drop once in a while, but it’s all about how you overcome these discouraging obstacles. You learn more from these negative experiences and you will come out much stronger if you really want it. 
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