I'm at school, about to have a nervous breakdown

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I'm really trying to stick through college, I really am. I came to school today, tyring to do what I need to do for it, and I feel like I'm on the brink of a freak-out. Total nervous breakdown.

I am so depressed, discouraged, sick of being harrased for my religious beliefs and sick of the vile movies that are shown here as a "part of the class". They are disgusting and offensive.

I am trying so hard to not drop out. But right now I can't even get myself to go into my classroom, where my class starts in 40 minutes.

There are no counselors here to talk to what so ever. They aparrently only come in MWF when I'm here TR. I don't think I can do this!

Should I just go home for the day? It's been a horible semester since BEFORE it began. I was dreading it in the middle of June, and it didn't start until the later part of August. And it really has been terrible this semester. It's only my third week, and I'm going to have a meltdown.

It's not the workload as much as the people, the intolerance of my beliefs and total ignorance/bullying.

What should I do?

I thought about the idea of taking online college courses to avoid the bullying and just being with so many students on a college campus. Can you possibly take online courses to avoid the bullying? Counselors are only there just few days a week?? That's strange. Do you go to a small campus? I would think even a small campus would have counselors every day (Mon-Fri) Is there a disability coordinator you can talk to? I know at my college we had the disability office where I got assistance.

I don't know what your religious beliefs are, but I'm sure that you pray... if you don't mind me saying so, I'll pray for you too.

My son has also seen some very severe bullying for his religious beliefs, and has had to walk out of a classroom because of the videos being shown. In that case I wrote a letter on his behalf to the school principle, detailing what had been happening, and why the content of that lesson was unacceptable to him. May I ask how old you are, what the subject is with the "vile" videos, and if it would be possible to transfer courses?

I would write down all your objections, detailing the bullying, the lack of counseling, and your objections to the lessons. I would also be open about your diagnoses, and hopefully you'll find the situation improves.

In the meantime, you're not the only one to go through this kind of thing, and it is survivable. God bless you, whatever your faith, and I pray you stay strong.

Go home for today.
As for your situation, there is little advice we can give without more data.

What has made people aware of your religious beliefs.
What course are you taking.
What movies are they showing you and how do they relate to the course?

I have Disability Services at my school which I use as much as I can. I've taken online courses before; they are much more expensive, but I think that might be a good option for me now. It's hard to do with art, but it can be done.

It is a small campus, and they are supposed to have a counselor there for the college students, but instead they only had one for GED students. I went to her, talked and everything, and yet I didn't feel any better. I can't express how I feel, you know? I think of all this stuff in my head to say, but when it comes to saying it, I can't get it out.



THank you so much for your prayers. I'm in my mid 20's, and the videos being shown were "The Thirteenth Warrior", which had cannibalism, decapitation, blood and gore, all in a humanities class! The next film really got me reeling, though. It's called "Eric the Viking". It showed a 65 year old woman getting punched in the face by a grown man, a young woman just sobbing because men were throwing axes at her, and crude sex jokes. it was supposed to be a comedy. It was totally misogynistic. The latter film had absolutely NO relevance to the course, and the teacher only showed it to appease the rest of the class (who thought it was a riot). And the film also showed bad stereotypes of my faith!

I've complained about the religious intolerance before; nothing ever happens. People keep calling my faith "the same as horoscopes, Islam, and they are all hilarious" (no offense to people who believe in Astrology or who are Muslim).

It's just all getting to me so bad. I don't know why.



People keep talking to me about religion. They bring it up so casually. One time, a guy said "How do you think Horoscopes are affecting our skills and personalities?"
I just said "I'm religious, I don't believe in Astrology". Nothing about what faith I was.
He replied that all religion is a joke, and he "studied" it in class, and people of my faith are hypocrites.
I tried to tell him my side, but then some girl walked in and said "Well, it's the truth" (that what he said was all right).
Then the two ganged up on me on how I was wrong, And how I didn't know anything about my own religion because what they "studied" said I was wrong!

That was before my math class!! !

In Humanities, a self-proclaimed atheist called my faith "hilarious". He was talking about what text we had to read in our books, I replied "The chapters pertaining to Islam, Christianity and Judaism". That's when he started talking about religion.

I don't go up to people and just start talking about my faith, but if they bring it up I'm not going to lie about it either. I don't force anything on anyone, but even when I don't want to talk anymore, the other party has to get the last word in about basically how stupid, "narrow-minded" and ignorant I am just because I don't compromise my beliefs to look more like theirs (that was from the guy in my math class again).

The movies, as stated previously, were Hollywood productions and had very little to do, if anything, with the course. We were studying a little about vikings, so we had to watch 2 movies with extreme violence that disturbed me for days, and with sexist themes and college-innapropriate humor.

I was taking Math for the Liberal Arts, Humanities: Ancient to Medieval, and English Comp II. These should not have been offensive classes! How much more bland can you get?!

I know to some that this will seem way overly sensitive, but I thought I would hurt someone or start cussing out people who would say that stuff to me again.

So I went and dropped the classes for the semester. I was afraid I might do something, and I don't even know the cause of all this. I know I am suffering from a deep depression, but I have only had this happen once or twice before when I was a teen!

But I feel, along with disappointment, better knowing I won't have to do the semester for now.

I don't know what my future looks like. I don't know if I can finish college. I don't know if I should go back, but I need to be able to support myself. I just don't know what I'm going to do.

Don't drop out of uni completely; you'll regret it in years to come, but seriously think about changing courses. These guys sound like pompous intellectual twits.

Also, in uni, probably best to keep your religion to yourself unless there's a society or something that can support you. It shouldn't have to be like that, but often 'humanities' courses are incredibly closed minded (a little bit like the PPR forum here on WP). Science subjects are less so, simply because religion is kind of irrelevant to the course.

Dissing anyone's religion is a bad thing, no matter who does it. Feel free to get as mad as you want. Then do something about it if they continue. Find out what teacher F*d up thier thiinking and have a few angry words with him, make him teach them to respect others. If that doesn't work, go to his supervisor and explain it. If you don't do well in verbal confrontation that you believe in, then write it up and deliver it to him.