I've been depressed for at least two years now, but only started getting help last december. I have missed so much school it is not even funny. I have a 504 plan, and part of that plan says I can go down to the nurse's office just to sit down and breathe for a few minutes if I feel too stressed out, ie. during a huge panic attack where I DON'T WANT TO TALK, then go back to class when I've calmed down.
So last week, I had a major panic attack, and the day before I had gone home because the nurse heard that I was going to start cutting, so I didn't want to go home again. I wanted to stay at school, aftere I calmed down, but, barely a minute after there was stranger, (I really hate strangers,) who was like Head of Child Study Team, and next thing I know I have to go talk to him in his office, then the school social worker, and then they deem me unsafe to go to school, and I need a note from the doctor at my Intensive Outpatient saying I can go back to school.
I get that, and then, it gets LOST. My mom thinks I did it, because I'm apparently trying to avoid school? So I can't go to school on Friday. I miss the next three days with an awful stomach bug/virus/plague that's going around, and I still have, but I guess you didn't really vomit unless you show it to your parnts before you flush it, as that was the first thing on my mind as I emptied to contents of my stomach into a porcelain bowl, "Gee, I better not flush so my mom knows I'm not faking it" yeah I totally remembered that.
I go to my IOP, and start talking about the above in group process, and they all think I'm avoiding school on purpose, running away from my problems, and then just giving the same stupid advice I've heard before. The icing on the cake is when one girl tells me the exact same thing I had told her the day before, and her reply was basically "that doesn't work at all" in different words, and then she asks me why I am disregarding what they're saying, even though wouldn't take advice, and they're not even listening to me! They just keep spewing general "oh you shouldn't skip school" "school is important" "you need to try different coping skills" bull. The counselor asked what I do when I get sent home, you know what I do? I sit with my dog, staring out the window doing absolutely NOTHING, until my brothers get home from school. "See? Doesn't it sound like she's gotten used to it? Like she's just relaxing?" NO I'm not just relaxing, I don't do anything because I should be in school. I don't turn on a tv, I don't touch my laptop, I just sit with a dog that growls and barks at nearly all the cars that pass.
I really need to make it through the school day, because in less than two weeks is a special field trip, and I can perform at it, which I've been looking forward to for a year, and it's part of the reason I started singing lessons, and I can't go. The school's decided that I'm too unsafe, even though there's been no real incident, ever, so they don't want me to go at this point, and it's breaking my heart because music is my life and it's the only real reason I'm in the school chorus, (which is really more of a social thing than a music thing and it makes me want to cringe but only them and the art kids get to go,) and now, they're telling me that unless there's some big, magical improvement or they don't send me home every time I get a panic attack, I can't go.
It doesn't help that when I went to school yesterday, they thought I was too dangerous before I even got to homeroom. I have to check in with sombody in the morning, and rate my suicidal thoughts on a scale of 0-10, my urge to self harm, my depression, and how much I wish I was dead, and they decided the numbers were too high, and sent me home, immediately. No homeroom, nope, no anything. The thing is? The numbers were, well at least some of them, lower than how I usually feel, and I feel like that all the time, the only reason the feelings were lessened was because the school chorus was singing a song I actually liked for once, and even though it sounded strange with kids straining to reach notes because that's not how parts should be assigned, the piano was nice.
TL;DR: My school keeps sending me home because they think I'm dangerous, and now my iop thinks I'm trying to avoid school or something. I can't go on the one school trip I WANT to, I-I just don't know what's going on anymore.
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