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I found this post because I am feeling the same way. No one is being mean to me. I just don't feel like I have any real connections. I have not had this trouble before. I made friends at my old school, when I first moved hear. I have made friends in extracurricular activities. Basically I have friends in everything but nursing school. It seems everyone has their own little cliques and I am just not involved. I feel left out.

On our psych patho page she makes us put dsm criteria on there. I know it's not patho but its the way she has it.

I forgot to add that I don't feel close to my classmates. They all have their little cliques and I just don't fit in. I mean they are nice to me and all, but I don't feel the bond that everyone else seems to have.

I'm a second semester nursing student and it is midsemester point. At this point I am angry and resentful. I have a mental health clinical and a medsurg this semester. With mental health we don't have to go the night before. However, we do careplans that day. We had to go to a support group meeting and interview a family/friend with a mental disorder. One care plan, the interview, and support group were due this week. I got my careplan back from the last time. She said that my pathos were not accurate. I got it from the dsm....how much more accurate can I be than the criteria? On top of that we have to interview one of our med surg patients either this week or next whteek about adaptation to illness. REALLY? Its not like I spend an hour or two at the hospital the night before. Then stay up half the night writing a careplan and then wake up to be at the hospital at 645. I have plenty of time to interview the patient the night before or after post conference when I am completely exhausted. I used to want to be a psych nurse. I worked as a tech over the summer and loved it. But now I HATE psych. On top of all that we can go to the hospital from 3-5 or after 8pm. Mental health lecture runs from 1-3:50. We have had several exams this semester with up to 3 being in one week (seeing as how we have class on tuesdays and thursdays you can see how this adds up) On top of it my cousin died, and my stepgrandfather is dying and I dont even have the time to deal with it. I am crying at least once a day. I just had a major panic attack in my room. My doctor and I are having to double my anti-depressants just trying to rein me in. I am breaking down. I am so miserable I want to quit. It isn't worth this. My mom tries to encourage me by saying its almost over but it seems like such a long time. I don't know if I can deal with this.