Stress Center Peer Support

I keep having all these terrible things happen to me! Its seems to always be this way for me. In the last month I was told by the university I planned to go to that I couldnt attend because they missed something so Im back at community college for my 4th year! I went to the hospital last week with inflamed stomach lining and then my pet rat just up and died suddenly!

I feel like I should be able to handle these and I SHOULD see the big picture but the college thing was so devastating at the time I was out of control. Now its making me doubt my decision making skills in school and life. Im just so tired of screwing up. I feel liek I dont have enough direction in life to make me not feel restless. Im 22 and I feel like im wasting my life!!!

I just want that initial gut wrenching feeling when something bad happens to go away so I dont feel liek I have to over medicate it with anxiety. any advice????

I feel like anxiety and depression are the worst when several things hit you at once. Each thing on its own may be able to be handled, but not the overwhelming burden of several things at one time. You just want to throw your hands up and shout "what can happen next?" But then, the cry might be answered....
Is there any thing in your life that makes you feel good- friends, exercise, religion, music? If so, please lean on that a little more until things settle down- and they will.
I've been told over and over that when you get knocked down, you really have no choice but to pick up and carry on. It may be hard to get up and tempting to just lay there, but tomorrow comes whether we like it or not.
Maybe try to take each bad thing that happened and make a list of things you can do to overcome, and tackle one issue at a time. It may not happen overnight, but you have to get on your feet and go at your problems from a different angle until you find the solution.
Some people like to take on the hardest thing first and get it out of the way. I like the "feel good feeling" of starting with the little things to give me some encouragement and self-confidence.
I know this doesn't particularly help you, but you are young, and some people have suffered for decades with all this. I'm thankfuly you are confronting your disorder early in age so that the rest of your life can be happy and fulfilling. Take care, dear- Bev