need advise

I can't give you advice regarding medication and study skills, but I can tell you that if what you really want is to do nursing, then you should go after it. I believe that in the end drive, desire and hard work overcome everything. Because you have been diagnosed with these disorders it may be harder for you to achieve your goal, so you should not feel compelled to measure up to someone else's standards. Do it at your own pace, you may have to repeat the course.

Also, if you have a learning disability your school has to give you accomodations to take your tests, which can help you as well.

Good luck, Nat

I went through something similar when I started nursing school. I went through the first semester just "not getting it" at all. My grades were failing (79%) and I was told I could not continue this year but I could restart the following year with the next class. I swallowed my pride, got a job as a nurses aid that year and came back a freshman again, with my previous class now in their second year. It was not easy but something clicked and I began getting A's and B's. Clinicals can be very subjective and I will never know how much was the fact that my instructors felt I really wanted to be here seeing as how I came back and started over. But I continued with A's and B's and graduated with my new class. My first year nursing instructor said "when you first started you built your foundation on sand, when you came back you built it on solid ground." Hope this helps.