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Petition Letter: Hello,

Throughout this year due to covid and school-related issues as well as situations in my personal life I have struggled with mental health issues, especially anxiety. Due to this I have fallen further and further behind in my courses and have failed to catch up. My anxiety attacks started around February to March 2020, where I had a series of unfortunate situations happen one after the other. These included the ending of a relationship, a family member was hospitalized, and covid ramping up causing a lot of the events I looked forward to falling apart. I didn't reach out at first because I didn't understand what I was going through. Later on, I had another major anxiety episode when I first moved into dorms in September, an old friend had attempted suicide. Due to this situation as well as feeling like I didn't really make friends in dorms, I decided to move back home. I didn't reach out at this point because I blamed myself for falling apart and thought I needed to fix myself. After talking to my mom about my anxiety attacks once I was back home she immediately recommended I see a counselor as she had dealt with similar experiences at a younger age. I first tried to connect through empower me, but due to my own bad time management and very erratic sleep schedule, I failed to connect. I didn't go through any anxiety attacks for a couple of months and decided not to try again to connect at the time. However, realizing how far I had fallen behind in my course work as well as being unable to figure out my erratic sleep schedule I only recently decided to attempt to connect again. While I have not been able to get through to a counselor as of yet I have contacted Empower Me and should be arranged soon.

Sincerely,

Bilaal Kazi