I've probably said a lot of this before, but it doesn't go away.

[notemily]

I've been thinking about accommodations and disability and school today. Most of the people reading this blog know that I have a LOT of trouble with school--I always have, or at least, I have ever since I started getting a certain amount of homework. (Before then, though, I had problems paying attention in class, so.) Since then, I've had major

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[rhiannon23]

I was just talking to a co-worker today about how I was in intensive therapy for depression throughout all of graduate school and she commented that "grad school will do that to you." She struggled a lot through her MBA too.

It reminded me of this post. We do tend to just accept the physical and mental toll that school is "supposed to" take on a person. It didn't occur to me until just this very second that going to therapy twice (or more) in one week just to cope with school and life is kind of fucked up.

I need to re-think some things.

[notemily]

yes. I'm only beginning to realize how fucked up it all is, too. I feel like people see it as a rite of passage--"if you're tough enough to get through this, then you can join our elite club of academics." Kind of like how medical school is hell and sleep deprivation, even though that's bad for the patients. I hate that attitude because it assumes that everyone's starting with the same resources and if you only try hard enough you can make it, which is blatantly false.