2nd Year Break?

[holly2562]

Hi guys,

So I'm a 22 year old nursing student from NZ in which we undergo a 3 year degree to obtain our nursing registration.

Anyway, I'm currently in my 2nd year - 4 months in exactly - , doing my second placement (6 weeks in med surg) which i'm enjoying but I have a history of depression and am currently going through a bout. I have used all of my sick days and went in to my College today to talk to two lecturers about what to do. I was crying the whole time and we have come to the decision for me to go to my Gen Prac tomorrow to enquire about further medical intervention (I am on Citalopram already, which I feel works but obviously not enough) and then see the school counselor on Monday. So the jist is I either go back on Monday on a PM shift or have a year off. I'm struggling in knowing what to do and the people i'm close with have said to just tough it out but I don't know if I can, but if I take a year off it just means it'll take longer to get my degree which I really want because I want to do humanitarian work in third world countries ASAP.

Thanks in advance for your comments

[Zibbie]

You know yourself best. I think you have to be honest with yourself as to how this normally goes for you first and foremost and then decide how that factors in to your ability to be a student. You may want to do humanitarian work but if you fail classes because you are spiraling and you stayed you won't be doing humanitarian work anyway and will be worse off then taking a year.