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Have you ever missed school/work because of your mood?
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I've missed the last 25 years because of my mood
Jobs, college, home life, kid time, marriage.
Talk about a failure and need a reference.
Look me up and I'll give you all details.
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Tragoedia Vitae, Redt2go, RaphtaliaTwoAnimals and 2 others
My entire senior year of college I almost never went to classes. And a lot of my work since then has involved being alone in labs or in isolated facilities. I can go many months without ever speaking.
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ImsooDone1N, Tragoedia Vitae, Weeping Garbage Can and 1 other person
I pretended to go to college for a whole year. I just walked around 8 hours a day, 5 days a week hiding. then went home and lied I had been there to my parents. They only found out the last week, because my dad rang college up and asked when my exams would finish so he could take me out for an end of exams meal. I try my hardest in every job, but it gets so hard to go out. I end up dropping out. I don't want to be a failure.
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Tragoedia Vitae, Wolfjob_dayjob, FTL.Wanderer and 1 other person
I pretended to go to college for a whole year. I just walked around 8 hours a day, 5 days a week hiding. then went home and lied I had been there to my parents. They only found out the last week, because my dad rang college up and asked when my exams would finish so he could take me out for an end of exams meal. I try my hardest in every job, but it gets so hard to go out. I end up dropping out. I don't want to be a failure.
College was hell for me. I had very early morning and late evening lab classes. And after night labs, I'd hide out in my dorm's basement (smelled awful, rats...) working on problem sets until 3AM. I had no friends and walked around campus in a haze marveling at all the statuesque, popular, well-adjusted people. I felt like a dog turd baking in the hot sun on an asphalt sidewalk. The only reason I was able to get through it was my major allowed me not to have to speak to anyone--not even faculty. I missed a lot of classes, preferring to stay in the darkest, biggest, most anonymous libraries on campus. We had this one big library with attic "stacks" that even in the summer were dark, shadowy... College is a place for popular people. Or at least normal people. If high school is bad with all its social drama, college can be downright awful. People may stop physically attacking you, but then they go out of their way to let you know at every opportunity that you're worth less than the mud they scrape off the bottom of their shoes. And you realize, then, that that's the way the real world works.
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Divine Trinity, Tabbyql, NumbItAll and 2 others
During school I pulled as many sickies as possible. Normally on days where we would have to do a class presentation.
College was similar, I'm just came and went as I pleased. Still finished top of my class.
Works abit harder as I work for my dad. But apart from the past few months my life was great and I didn't feel the need too hide. But at the start of this year I had too take a week off after abit of a mental breakdown.
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ImsooDone1N, Tragoedia Vitae and Wolfjob_dayjob
I had like 20-30 absences senior year of HS, then withdrew a month into college because of constant panic attacks. Then a few years later dropped out again from online classes due to lack of interest / depression. It somewhat worked out because I eventually got a degree the cheap/easy way. Still haven't done anything with it though.
I missed school and a lot of your stories here and around the forum bring back hellish memories. I get the mental version of that feeling I get in my legs when watching videos of people falling especially around pools. There has been a LONG era of having a place to live become destabilized while working full time usually involving roommates or a horrific increase in rent, which then causes work to fall through. There's also work just falling apart but falling apart at work is probably my favorite because at least it's a calculated and cathartic fury.
It's severely effected not just my presence /performance in school & jobs, but also in many other areas of my life. And I feel like it's getting worse now.
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RaphtaliaTwoAnimals, Weeping Garbage Can and Nem
Yes. I missed a lot of school as a kid. One year I got in a lot of trouble for missing over 100 days. So I missed almost the whole year. Then I did high school online at home. I dropped out of college because of my anxiety. I don't miss work simply just because I can't afford to. So I just suck it up even if I'm spending most of the day hiding out crying.
This is how we know for sure that it's not us that is the problem it's the system lol! We have designed a system where many of us frequently try to avoid terrible environments like school and bad jobs lol! Jus kiddin! Might have partial truth though.
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