Shaved the beard off. Goodbye beard.

hope you donated it to charity

Bakestar wrote:Shaved the beard off. Goodbye beard.

i think you will enjoy it. i only had mine for 4 plus months and im glad i got rid of it.

neither of you really earned your beards anyway

This is a big difference from what I had said last week, but I am truly considering quitting student teaching. I have been here for two full weeks and part of a third, and I just don't see how I am going to get through this. I've had underlying anxiety issues for a few years now and this is making it 10x worse. I don't want to do any of the work, I don't want to talk to anybody, I just don't seem to care about anything. I'm not sleeping at all and hardly eating in the mornings, although my appetite does seem to increase during the day. I just don't know what to do. I talked to my parents last night and they told me to fight through and not quit, and I understand where they are coming from, but I just think I can't show interest in something or fake this any longer. I'm about ready to go home tonight, relax, wake up tomorrow and shoot out some e-mails to my co-op and advisor to tell them I am done.

This sucks.

would that mean just bagging two, three, four years of work towards an education degree/certification?

CFP wrote:This is a big difference from what I had said last week, but I am truly considering quitting student teaching. I have been here for two full weeks and part of a third, and I just don't see how I am going to get through this. I've had underlying anxiety issues for a few years now and this is making it 10x worse. I don't want to do any of the work, I don't want to talk to anybody, I just don't seem to care about anything. I'm not sleeping at all and hardly eating in the mornings, although my appetite does seem to increase during the day. I just don't know what to do. I talked to my parents last night and they told me to fight through and not quit, and I understand where they are coming from, but I just think I can't show interest in something or fake this any longer. I'm about ready to go home tonight, relax, wake up tomorrow and shoot out some e-mails to my co-op and advisor to tell them I am done.

This sucks.

Xanex.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:would that mean just bagging two, three, four years of work towards an education degree/certification?

I don't even want to think about that right now, but I would have to look into it. I have 108 credits in the books, with the last 12 of the 120 being student teaching. My degree is poly sci, with the social studies cert. following that. I thought I remembered my professor from last semester saying if we didn't want to teach we could just graduate and move on, but I don't know if that's true.

can you quit on this student teaching experience and try again next semester?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:can you quit on this student teaching experience and try again next semester?

If I quit I am pretty dead set on never doing it again. I just don't think I want to deal with it. Then again, I was stressed out even when I was just taking normal classes.

I can't tell if you're having some actual serious emotion and anxiety issues or if you're just being a lazy bitch. Please provide more detail so we can recommend a proper course of action

Woody wrote:I can't tell if you're having some actual serious emotion and anxiety issues or if you're just being a lazy bitch. Please provide more detail so we can recommend a proper course of action

Ha. Yeah, I've had some serious emotion and anxiety issues. I have had IBS issues/severe stomach issues since about 2005 now, and I think the fact that people told me there was no true way to be sure they would ever be fixed scared the shit out of me. I think rock bottom was about August '10 from what I remember, when I started having panic attacks and went on Prozac. I stopped taking it probably last June because I thought it wasn't do anything, but it hasn't been a good time the last couple of years. The worst part of this is shaking a lot. I have had bad chest pains and reflux because of the IBS, and it gets worse when I am stressed. Meds could help, but I don't know if they will.

speaking of, what's the deal with the whole prozac/mass murder thing? seems like that drug should go back to the lab

Just quitting isn't going to fix the problem though. My roommate is student teaching and he thinks it's great. I'm not sure you are going to be much better off in any other professional situation. I think you need to get evaluated by a professional. I'm saying this as someone who's been there.

Have you seen a doctor and/or counselor about your anxiety issues in the past? You may benefit from a follow up.

My doc is aware of the situation and he said he was fine with me going off Prozac if I thought it was okay, so I did. I don't think it helped, I don't think it hurt. I've been to a psychologist and I thought he did a pretty decent job so maybe I will go back to him.

mpmcgraw giving rational advice. May wonders never cease.

Not exactly a medical expert here, but I'd also suggest you either give the medicated route another shot or see the psychologist again before pulling the plug completely on something that you obviously wanted to do at least at one point. If they don't help, then no use putting yourself through hell for it, but I'd hate to see you close the door on something this important without exploring a couple of options that might let it all work out.

also look what happens to non-teaching poly sci majors

sounds like you're not cut out for this line of work. get your degree and move on.