Hi, Kati,

I certainly sympathize with how being sugar sensitive makes going to school difficult. I couldn't finish my Ph.D. many years ago basically because I was just too bouncing-off-the-wall nuts.

I work as an academic advisor in a college now. If you were one of my students, I would say you are trying to do too much (four incompletes is an awful lot). It sounds like the best this professor could do is offer you yet another incomplete.

IF I had had Potatoes not Prozac at the critical time (it came out when I had already dug myself into a deep, deep hole academically), I think I would have taken a leave of absence and worked on my health and sanity, and then gone back to school.

There just aren't any quick fixes. You will start feeling better right away if you start with Step 1 and do it faithfully in all four parts (do you know what those are)? But well enough to organize your school life sanely and start getting things done? I don't know.

We all think we have really good reasons for rushing the program (I stopped sugar after about 4 weeks into the program because I was so depressed and I HAD TO stop the sugar to make the depression stop, I was sure!). But the program works slowly and wonderfully, step by step by step.

Do you have a doctor's note regarding your depression? I also teach, and at our university, we can only make allowances for things like that if students give us concrete evidence. Clinical depression is a serious problem, it can be life threatening, so you're not just wimping out asking for help and extensions because of it. It's hard for sugar sensitives to ask for help--but we have to, if we're going to heal.

Focus on breakfast and see what magic it works for you. Join the Step 1 list and let us support you with every step.

Camille