Can you ask for academic suspension and return when you're up to it? I think you'd have a strong case with documented absences x
I’ve had multiple leaves of absences now. So much so that I doubt they’ll me grant a suspension as I need to have completed the dissertation within a certain number of years to get the masters which I’m likely coming up to now. Plus whilst the leaves of absences have been helpful for my mh, they’ve not been that helpful in that they’ve allowed me to put my dissertation completely on the back burner so then when I do finally come back to it, I get completely overwhelmed, or find half or what I have written is too outdated to use which then sends me back to square one again.
---
Are you a bit reluctant to submit anything because you feel like you’ve not excelled as you’d like and this is all a bit final? Not trying to be presumptuous. Obviously you go in with expectations but sometimes completing it is good enough and you have shown you’re capable by passing assignments. The grade isn’t significant in most fields. There’s time to take a breather, as well as regular breaks and tackle it, believe me
Is there anyone who can read over parts for you? They don’t have to be knowledgeable on the subject. Even just talking it through with a ‘layperson’ can help. Have you submitted any drafts to your tutor? Could you get any further days with an extenuating circumstances form? I’m sure there also used to be ways you could get discretionary postponement. Good luck!
I get what you are saying but weirdly no? I couldn’t care less about excelling anymore. I’m completely over it and regret I ever started it. I just want it gone now so I don’t have to deal with it anymore. Ideally I would like to scrape a pass as I don’t have it in me to resubmit. What I find really frustrating is I’m at the point now of either not submitting or submitting knowing it will fail. And that’s not me thinking with my depression hat on where I’m stupid at everything, realistically it won’t and should not pass as it is from looking at the grading structure.
My course is via distance learning and because I’ve had multiple leaves of absence I’ve now got a new tutor who I have never been in touch with before. Im assuming my old tutor informed him of my mh but so far via email he hasn’t been very helpful when I’ve tried to seek support. That or he tends to go on holidays whenever I have hit a submission deadline so is not contactable during the most pivotal time.
I really struggled with asking someone to proofread but when I finally did, they were really honest with me and said they lost interest reading it as my field of study is a bit dry and boring which I completely understand.
So really my choice is either submit and then deal with the inevitable fail or throw in the towel and quit before I fail which is
tit as well. Part of me feels like I should just submit as what have I got to lose either way but I just don’t want to open an email with fail on it as it will just confirm everything I already think about myself and make me go further into a downward spiral.
I have until Tuesday to decide what I’m going to do but right now my head just feels like mush and im completely lacking any motivation. I’m going to try and keep working on it but all I want to do is hide in bed and sleep so I dont have to deal with any of it.