The UConn train does not stop for mental illness |UConn Daily Campus

I’m not going to lie, my experience at UConn has been an inexorable, maladaptive struggle since I arrived last January. Masochistically subscribing to the pre-med track, I have sought to pursue a career that requires studying multiple difficult math and science classes at once, none of which I’m inherently good at, and some which aren’t even on the MCATs.

In order to excel at school, I have to sacrifice sanity and normal circadian rhythms, but I can’t excel at school without either of those things.

What makes the responsibilities of college unbearable, though, is when the workload is crushed further into your chest by a persistent mental illness. I have struggled with severe depression and its insomnia accoutrements for the past year and a half, although it’s just a coincidence that that’s about as long as I’ve been at UConn.

I am constantly caught between this “I’m an adult, suck it up” mentality and acknowledging that there is, in fact, something making me have genuine difficulty concentrating, working and sleeping. Something tells me that despite everyone’s idiosyncratic pursuits, these sentiments are far from original.

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