<p>I am new to this forum, but I am glad I found it, what a great website.</p>
<p>My story, and I'll make it quick, starts at the beginning of college. When I graduated high school in 2008, I applied and enrolled at UMASS Lowell. My grandmother, who I was extremely close to suddenly passed away right as I started college. The whole time I attend UML, I didn't do much work. I have W's on my transcripts from it and I had no motivation, fell into deep depression and acquired some terrible anxiety issues. I eventually dropped out after 3 semesters of torturing myself and enrolled at North Shore Community College for Business Administration. I am here now and still having trouble with school and my godmother recently passed away. I want to do well but I find myself not being able to fully achieve my potential. </p>
<p>I am an extremely bright person and have great capabilities but there is something else that needs to be fixed and I can't seem to figure it out.</p>
<p>I have a goal of finishing my associates degree and going to Emerson for journalism, broadcasting or something along those lines. But I need some sort of agenda/schedule to get myself into the right direction.</p>
<p>I feel myself, here at North Shore, slowly getting back to my ways at UML, feeling distant from my lectures, and feel like I should withdraw from those classes that I am not doing good in, but I know I can't risk it!</p>
<p>For the record, I am 20 years old and have just been diagnosed with ADHD. It is documented, so next semester I'm sure I can get some help from disability services. My doctor said that this issue should have been addressed years ago, and now I feel like it is too late to do anything!</p>
<p>Thank you guys for reading and your help is greatly appreciated. I feel like I am running out of time and I really do not know what to do.</p>
<p>ADHD is dietary; stop eating the processed sugary foods and the other ubiquitous western rubbish. If one eats primarily vegetables, meats (no antibiotics, hormones, grass-fed), and fruits, the ADHD symptoms should subside.</p>
<p>That said, business? Journalism? I would advise learning a trade in lieu.</p>
<p>i eat organic foods, and work out daily. it is not my food intake. and yes, journalism, i have a passion for writing. i can clearly tell that you didn’t read my post thoroughly or take anything into consideration. instead you decided to tell me to change my diet and drop out of school.</p>
<p>I’m confused as to what you want help with. It seems that every problem you addressed is something that can’t be helped by strangers, it has to be done entirely by you. There is literally nothing we can do to help you… don’t wait on any answers from us, instead start living your life the way you want to live it. If you feel yourself withdrawing and know you can’t, thrust yourself into the work. It’ll be hard but it’s possible, tons of people have done it and I have no reason to believe you can’t. </p>
<p>But for now it really seems like you need to just man up and MAKE yourself reach your potential. There will always be excuses you can give yourself that’ll prevent it from happening, even if they’re legitimate excuses, but you’ll never do everything you can/wanted to if you give yourself any kind of excuse. Say: F. everything that’s wrong, I’ll struggle through it and get to a point I want to get to. I didn’t read anything in your post that seems insurmountable. Depression can be overcome (I’ve overcome it). ADHD can be handled. There is no one holding you back but yourself. Do you realize that?</p>
<p>@Vanagandr: Experiments show that sugar doesn’t cause hyperactivity. Experiments did show, however, that mothers who were told their children were fed sugar were more likely to believe their children were hyperactive, even if the child was not fed sugar. Essentially, sugar may make one more aware of hyperactive behavior, but does not cause it.</p>
<p>Sounds like depression to me. Do they offer counseling at student health services there? You need to talk to someone and figure out what is going on. Writing on an internet BB is not the way to attack a problem that can potentially affect your entire life.</p>