Comments on: Depression and me. http://surroundedbygrass.info/2010/02/depression-and-me/ Personal blog of a female teenage farmer. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:28:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jana http://surroundedbygrass.info/2010/02/depression-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Jana Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:31:03 +0000 http://surroundedbygrass.info/?p=311#comment-119 To answer your question, yes you can still complete NCEA. You have many options. Personally, I went through the correspondence school, it's not free for you anymore because you are 19, it's 100$ per subject per year. Which is still cheap! It takes real determination to do it though. I did it for about a year before I stopped. I only stopped because I got a full time job in my "dream job". You can go back to school, I have a few friends who went back, they seemed happier the second time around! Or do some night courses / free courses. Or go through WINZ, I think they have courses for people who don't have the best education. It's not NCEA, but it gives you qualifications to be able to get jobs etc. You can do a "Foundation course" which is what I'm (hopfully) about to do. Basicly it's at a Uni or Tech, and it gives you what you need to get into Uni or Tech. So... It'll teach you how to write essays, teach you maths, english.. etc. Like this one I hope to take http://www.cbe.canterbury.ac.nz/bridging/cup. Most Unis or techs offer them. (except Wikato I've been told). You can also get ones taliored to what you want to study at Uni. EG: There is a Pre-Health program at CPIT (Canterbury tech), they teach you what you need to sucseed at Uni (essays, studying etc) plus bio / chem / physics which is needed for the Bachelor of Nursing. Gah. I hope I'm not confusing you! My head is mess lately. Trying to decide what I want to study! It's a hard choice! Are you still in contact with your friends? I have lost contact with a lot of my friends over the years. It sucks. :( Because it's hard to find people I trust. Where abouts in NZ are you? To answer your question, yes you can still complete NCEA. You have many options.

Personally, I went through the correspondence school, it’s not free for you anymore because you are 19, it’s 100$ per subject per year. Which is still cheap! It takes real determination to do it though. I did it for about a year before I stopped. I only stopped because I got a full time job in my “dream job”.

You can go back to school, I have a few friends who went back, they seemed happier the second time around! Or do some night courses / free courses. Or go through WINZ, I think they have courses for people who don’t have the best education. It’s not NCEA, but it gives you qualifications to be able to get jobs etc.

You can do a “Foundation course” which is what I’m (hopfully) about to do. Basicly it’s at a Uni or Tech, and it gives you what you need to get into Uni or Tech. So… It’ll teach you how to write essays, teach you maths, english.. etc. Like this one I hope to take http://www.cbe.canterbury.ac.nz/bridging/cup. Most Unis or techs offer them. (except Wikato I’ve been told). You can also get ones taliored to what you want to study at Uni. EG: There is a Pre-Health program at CPIT (Canterbury tech), they teach you what you need to sucseed at Uni (essays, studying etc) plus bio / chem / physics which is needed for the Bachelor of Nursing.

Gah. I hope I’m not confusing you! My head is mess lately. Trying to decide what I want to study! It’s a hard choice!

Are you still in contact with your friends? I have lost contact with a lot of my friends over the years. It sucks. :( Because it’s hard to find people I trust.

Where abouts in NZ are you?

]]> By: v http://surroundedbygrass.info/2010/02/depression-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-118 v Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:58:09 +0000 http://surroundedbygrass.info/?p=311#comment-118 Same here. Was depressed since I was about thirteen and my two best friends moved a hundred miles away (at the same time no less) and after that I kinda just shut down. I was always a shy kid and so being alone didn't do me any favours. I didn't really care about school and I soon discovered that I could get mum to let me stay home if I wined and moaned enough. On average, by the time I was fifteen, I was taking two or three days off a week. To tell the truth during my time in school I never really knew what ncea was, just that I was expected to get it. No one told me and I didn't care to ask. After I left school at seventeen (having just failed ncea 1 and barely started 2) I spent all my time hidden away in my room, staying up all night and sleeping in all day, playing video games and doing anything I could think of to distract myself from the person I had become. So I'm nineteen now and I'm alot better, still afraid and still want to just forget everything and disappear again, but I think as long as I keep moving forward and doing things with other people I should be ok. What I wanted to ask was if anyone knew if it's too late to go back and complete ncea? I've still got no idea what I'm going to do with the rest of my life, but I know that I don't want to work at a gass station or a mac donalds until I grow old. Should I call a school and ask?- I know that that's the most obvious solution but I'm still very confrontation shy and don't like telephones. Help would be appreciated. Same here. Was depressed since I was about thirteen and my two best friends moved a hundred miles away (at the same time no less) and after that I kinda just shut down. I was always a shy kid and so being alone didn’t do me any favours. I didn’t really care about school and I soon discovered that I could get mum to let me stay home if I wined and moaned enough. On average, by the time I was fifteen, I was taking two or three days off a week. To tell the truth during my time in school I never really knew what ncea was, just that I was expected to get it. No one told me and I didn’t care to ask.
After I left school at seventeen (having just failed ncea 1 and barely started 2) I spent all my time hidden away in my room, staying up all night and sleeping in all day, playing video games and doing anything I could think of to distract myself from the person I had become.
So I’m nineteen now and I’m alot better, still afraid and still want to just forget everything and disappear again, but I think as long as I keep moving forward and doing things with other people I should be ok.
What I wanted to ask was if anyone knew if it’s too late to go back and complete ncea? I’ve still got no idea what I’m going to do with the rest of my life, but I know that I don’t want to work at a gass station or a mac donalds until I grow old. Should I call a school and ask?- I know that that’s the most obvious solution but I’m still very confrontation shy and don’t like telephones.
Help would be appreciated.

]]> By: Kaylee http://surroundedbygrass.info/2010/02/depression-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Kaylee Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:04:32 +0000 http://surroundedbygrass.info/?p=311#comment-96 I really hope you get the new job! You deserve better <3 I really hope you get the new job! You deserve better <3

]]> By: Nellie http://surroundedbygrass.info/2010/02/depression-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Nellie Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:17:05 +0000 http://surroundedbygrass.info/?p=311#comment-95 Wow. This is a blog entry I could have very well written myself at your age. I'd had clinically diagnosed depression since the age of four, but I had learnt to deal with it pretty well. But it came back with a vengeance when I moved from Whangarei to Te Awamutu. The small-town people couldn't handle how different I was, so they made me an outcast and I ended up in a mental health ward for three months. I recommend that if you're beginning to feel depressed again, do something about it now rather than when it hits you hard. :) I also understand how you feel unappreciated by your bosses. My dad has been mucked around by his bosses I don't know how many times and it has made it really hard for him to progress any further in his career. Yet they all give him excellent references when he decides to leave and find something better. I really hope you end up with a better job than you have now. There's really nothing worse than working your ass off for nothing! Wow. This is a blog entry I could have very well written myself at your age. I’d had clinically diagnosed depression since the age of four, but I had learnt to deal with it pretty well. But it came back with a vengeance when I moved from Whangarei to Te Awamutu. The small-town people couldn’t handle how different I was, so they made me an outcast and I ended up in a mental health ward for three months. I recommend that if you’re beginning to feel depressed again, do something about it now rather than when it hits you hard. :)

I also understand how you feel unappreciated by your bosses. My dad has been mucked around by his bosses I don’t know how many times and it has made it really hard for him to progress any further in his career. Yet they all give him excellent references when he decides to leave and find something better. I really hope you end up with a better job than you have now. There’s really nothing worse than working your ass off for nothing!

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