<p>Hi everyone,
I don't know what to do. I go to Mount Holyoke College and I have enough credits to be a first semester senior. My G.P.A. is 3.9. I'm a Neuroscience major. Sunshine and roses right? Wrong.
I struggle with severe depression and have for the last seven years. I have been hospitalized three times since being at Mount Holyoke. I went on medical leave for all 0f 2008 and went back last semester, guardedly, but quickly fell apart again, landing back in the hospital for two weeks. Mount Holyoke is willing to take me back, but I'm terrified that it's tainted somehow. I've spent so much time there being so hopeless, maybe it's just the wrong place.
But I also know that I have one year left, that I would lose a tremendous amount of credit/money transferring, and that no college is going to look kindly on someone with a history of suicidal depression, I don't care how high my stupid GPA is.
So, what should I do?</p>
<p>keep on truckin’, every silver lining has a touch of grey.</p>
<p>Stick it out. I suggest you go back to MHC for the last year while seeing a psychiatrist semi-regularly. Are you on any anti-depressants?</p>
<p>haecceity,
As helpful as these forums can be in terms of college admission, this is really something you need to speak to a doctor or a therapist about. In the end it comes down to your ability to go back to MHC, mentally. Before you decide to do this, as OCCTransfer said, speak to a therapist or a psychiatrist about your reasons for feeling that MHC is “tainted”. Make sure it isn’t the school, itself, that is making you feel depressed. If it isn’t, going to college can be a great way to find a community and relieve some of that depression - combined with the right doctors and the right therapists.
Depression can be very scary and very serious, as I’m sure you know from your hospital visits. I highly suggest you find medical help as I think they will be able to give you the most answers.
Good luck and I wish you the best!</p>
<p>You may want to take this question to the Parents Forum or to the Learning Differences Forum ( <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/learning-differences-challenges-ld-adhd/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/learning-differences-challenges-ld-adhd/</a> ). I’ve seen useful discussions about mental health issues at both places.</p>
<p>One option that you may want to consider, is to ask MHC if it is possible to arrange to take a “guest senior year” elsewhere. In the past, this was a fairly common solution for students who got married after their junior year and then followed their husbands to a different part of the country. I’ve also known students to take guest senior years in order to take coursework pertinent to their major that is not offered at their home college. Since you have only one year of coursework left, it may be possible to complete all (or at least some) of it elsewhere.</p>
<p>There are a limited number of colleges/universities that will accept up to three years of transfer credits. Two of them are <a href=“http://www.ashford.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.ashford.edu</a> and [url=<a href=“http://www.umuc.edu/index.shtml]UMUC[/url”>http://www.umuc.edu/index.shtml]UMUC[/url</a>] </p>
<p>Wishing you only the best.</p>