Being depressed

[Upward_Bound]

So I'm about to get done with my application and I'm starting to get really depressed.

2 years seems like such a long time!!!

BTW I already have a BA And it took me forever to get.

I just feel like life keeps hitting the restart button on me

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

Agreed.

Totally busted lol. *Booyah* [emoji122]

[Nurse Leigh]

You keep using the word "bullying". I don't think it means what you think it means.

And honestly the whole "English isn't my first language" argument doesn't hold a lot of water when one of the glaring problems is putting punctuation in random and incorrect places.

I'm in awe of the many members we have here for whom English is not their first language. Yes we can sometimes tell because of syntax but that is quite different than what I'm witnessing here.

[NcPCT]

My degree is in a non scientific field. Plus my credits are old so I had to retake everything including a placement test for math.

I don't care if you don't care about me. If that's the most important information you have to relay then stop posting on my questions and find causes you deem to be worthy of your inconsiderate time.

I think you are awesome at least you can spell lol..I still struggle with the American language and grammer but everyone has their weak areas =). What I find intwreating in you ia that you haven't given up! Have you tried to actually separate completely and take some time to walk on the beach, down a dirt road and try focusing a few times a day on things? Simple things like looking at the trees swaying back n forth, feeling the wind on your face and taking in the fresh air..

[BSNMPHProspect]

I feel the same way. This year I had a major medical issue that required me to stop working and taking my prereqs. I felt like a complete failure and like my illness was a huge bump in the road. It makes me second guess if nursing is even for me. I live at home with my parents while im getting better and plan on restarting my pre-reqs this summer.

BUT!

I remember exactly why I chose this and I began to remember that this experience will help me become a better nurse. Its hard transitioning into a new career and having to start from scratch by taking science courses. But as a another poster said, "Life is a dance"!

Keep Going!!

[NcPCT]

I was bullied in school - the real bullying, like being pushed downstairs, people spitting in my food, having my wrist grabbed and sprained etcetera.

I have not experienced bullying in nursing, however.

Certainly, there are plenty of strong personalities in our field but we got along for the most part. As it turns out, having a macabre, sarcastic sense of humor can bring lots of people together! (See dirty mind thread that's going on now)

Perhaps you are right. But when I hear someone say depressed that itself can become a medical issue. People don't always think like they normally would, and imo it's a sensitive post. Bullying doesn't have to be hands on assult or battery. It can be people.mocking, or gossiping about, possibly even insensitive. .myself about 6 of us quit becauae of the way we were treated and how there was so much gossip it became so uncomfortable none of us evend dared say anything for fear to get attacked with disrespectful responses. Sorry for being defensive. Maybe I have a difference opinion from my own experience what it is? But Im here to learn and I will ADMIT I CAN be sensitive and now starting in ED in one week I agree with learning how to not take certain things not so it personal regarding criticism as long as it's said in an appropriate way?

But laughing at making jokes I don't get that part?

[NcPCT]

I have had a very hard life. If I had family/friends that could help me I would be asking them and not a public forum.

I will continue asking, I will continue to aspire to be more than I am today, hence my screen name "Upward_Bound".

And to address your comment about instant gratification this is not it. I have an AA, BA several certs etc. I have been in school over 7 years full time (including summer) and now finished another year (pre nursing), 6 months of waiting to be accepted, then 2 years of study.

How you consider that instant gratification or whining is beyond me.

There will ALWAYS be that 1 person who treats others the way they do..being. I wonder if those very people who say stop whining extra realize everyone is dofferent, everyone copes with things differently, not everyone keeps quite about their legs being blow off. I've been in the Military life for over 25 years and that is not aways the case. I've seen pt's pass out just the aite of blood whike others can stand in it . Stick with all the positive, & kind advise in here and know that there are nurses who don't feel the same way about how you are feeling vs those whom have their own ways.