Hello all,

I am posting here because I am pretty lost on my own and I am hoping for some guidance. I discovered Prozac Not Potatoes a couple years ago and very much clicked with it, but it didn't receive much of a chance because I eventually brushed it off as just another fad diet book. Recently, in search of the science regarding why I am the way I am, I returned to the book and realized I had the answer all along.

Anyways, I'm currently a college (super) senior going into my fifth year and hopefully last semester of college with two degrees, but I'm starting to really panic. The longer I've been in college, the more things seems to have fallen apart around me. I've suffered with depression and anxiety and just general confusion (which the book has been providing answers to) and my academics continue to suffer. Due to two very supportive teachers, I currently have four "Incompletes"which I still have the chance to finish.

Basically, I am writing here because at this moment I am trying to complete a required class which I am taking for the third time and I just missed a very important assignment deadline, and more are rapidly approaching (I'm supposed to take the final on Wednesday). This professor is not very lenient and I have no idea how to go about explaining why I would deserve a chance for an extension as I have not been an exemplary student.

Whenever I try to explain being "depressed" (which really does not fully encompass what this is since it's actually a drug addiction) I just feel like I'm playing some sort of victim card, and I hate that feeling. Though I have been pleasantly surprised by reactions in the past.

I really want to have time to fix myself and I know I can't do all the steps at once, but with how everything is going I just feel that I need to be better now. I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for getting through this. All of my loved ones mean well but none of them really understand and keep giving me "pep talks."

Sorry for the long post. I hope everyone is doing well on their journeys.

~Kati