I feel helpless

I am currently studying. Results have recently returned and I did horribly. Everyone around me does so well and no one understand how I'm feeling. Everyone have such high expectations of me and I can't answer to them. I have a research project due soon and it is no where near completion and I don't know who to seek help from.

My parents are utterly disappointed with me and that makes me feel even more horrible. I know compared to a lot of things that can happen in life, my problem is nothing. But I just can't help feeling upset and depressed. I have no one to talk to. Its not that I don't have friends, but all my friends that I can open up to graduated last year. I have people to talk to but it feels as if I'm just left alone to deal with my own problem. Sometimes, I try to tell some of my friends my problem, but they just bring up theirs instead and I end up listening to their problem. I know this may sound horribly lame but I'm really lonely and helpless.

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I feel helpless.
by: Anonymous

I think that you need to go to a sympathetic counsellor and work out why you apparently doing so badly. Are you happy with the course you are doing and is it right for you? If not I think you should change. Maybe you have wasted your time but you will have learnt something along with it.
You need time out to think about it carefully. There is always a reason for failing, you may have been feeling that you would fail, that can also play a part as well.
Did family play a part in choosing your course Or was it something you aspired to that you perhaps did not have the ability to do that.

Sit down and list all the talents that you do have and other interests that you have. We are all good at some things and bad at others, that is not a bad thing, we are all unique.
Best of luck

I feel helpless
by: Anonymous

I know how you feel in the fail department. I'm still in college when I should've graduated 2 years ago because I messed up and then I switched majors to something I really think is the one.

You just need to look at why you failed and reset your study habits. If you studied then you shouldn't have a reason to feel like you didn't do what you were suppose to do. Your parents have expectations like mine, but you have to try your best and realize you can't live up to every expectation. No one can live up to another person's every expectation because they are different.

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