Petition Letter
To whom it may concern,
I am writing to inform you that I wish to drop CHIN 100 from the 2022-2023 academic year. Over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year, I found myself in an abusive relationship, at the hands of an abusive partner. Although I was able to get myself out of the relationship, it did take a very big toll on my mental and physical well being both during and after it had ended. This event started to affect my mental and physical health around November/December of 2022 and it is still affecting me even today. This event, compounded with my already diagnosed severe anxiety and depression rendered me unable to complete this course.
This event instigated a very severe and long lasting depressive episode unlike anything I had experienced in the past that sent my mental and physical health into a downward spiral. With this series of traumatic events hanging over my head, the stress and anxiety they caused, made me unable to sleep most nights and the little sleep that I was able to get was of very low quality. I was not eating either, my depression robbing me of any appetite. Nor was I able to collect my emotions enough each day to leave my house for class, or anything else for that matter. These events also caused me to struggle with suicidal thoughts and tendencies. For all of these reasons, after these events had unfolded, I found myself completely unable to go to class each day, or complete the course work, or reach out to my professors for help, and I quickly fell behind.
I hesitated to drop the course right away, partially because a small, optimistic, part of me thought I could catch up, but in reality I could not. It was only after the drop deadline had passed, and I was able to start getting the help that I needed, that I fully understood the gravity of my situation, and that I should have, and needed, to drop the course. I was also worried about being demoted to part time status, and how that would affect my CPP benefits. In light of these traumatic events, and the strain they posed on my mental health, I only had the mental capacity to focus on two of my three courses (LLCU 295, and HEBR 190) and so CHIN 100 was an afterthought. My thought process was that I would rather do well in two courses that I focused all of my limited energy on, then be strained to focus on a third course with my already overextended mental capacity, and potentially fail all three of them.
After I was able to escape the grip the relationship, and my partner, had on me, I was able to get connected with a counselor to start helping me through the issues and uphill mental health battle that I faced. I had many discussions with my family and my circle of professional care and we came to the conclusion that, given the strain these events and ensuing struggles placed on my academic performance, it would be best for me to focus my limited energy on only two courses, and drop CHIN 100.
I am writing to inform you that I wish to drop CHIN 100 from the 2022-2023 academic year. Over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year, I found myself in an abusive relationship, at the hands of an abusive partner. Although I was able to get myself out of the relationship, it did take a very big toll on my mental and physical well being both during and after it had ended. This event started to affect my mental and physical health around November/December of 2022 and it is still affecting me even today. This event, compounded with my already diagnosed severe anxiety and depression rendered me unable to complete this course.
This event instigated a very severe and long lasting depressive episode unlike anything I had experienced in the past that sent my mental and physical health into a downward spiral. With this series of traumatic events hanging over my head, the stress and anxiety they caused, made me unable to sleep most nights and the little sleep that I was able to get was of very low quality. I was not eating either, my depression robbing me of any appetite. Nor was I able to collect my emotions enough each day to leave my house for class, or anything else for that matter. These events also caused me to struggle with suicidal thoughts and tendencies. For all of these reasons, after these events had unfolded, I found myself completely unable to go to class each day, or complete the course work, or reach out to my professors for help, and I quickly fell behind.
I hesitated to drop the course right away, partially because a small, optimistic, part of me thought I could catch up, but in reality I could not. It was only after the drop deadline had passed, and I was able to start getting the help that I needed, that I fully understood the gravity of my situation, and that I should have, and needed, to drop the course. I was also worried about being demoted to part time status, and how that would affect my CPP benefits. In light of these traumatic events, and the strain they posed on my mental health, I only had the mental capacity to focus on two of my three courses (LLCU 295, and HEBR 190) and so CHIN 100 was an afterthought. My thought process was that I would rather do well in two courses that I focused all of my limited energy on, then be strained to focus on a third course with my already overextended mental capacity, and potentially fail all three of them.
After I was able to escape the grip the relationship, and my partner, had on me, I was able to get connected with a counselor to start helping me through the issues and uphill mental health battle that I faced. I had many discussions with my family and my circle of professional care and we came to the conclusion that, given the strain these events and ensuing struggles placed on my academic performance, it would be best for me to focus my limited energy on only two courses, and drop CHIN 100.