hungover wrote:
So, I'm currently in my second to last year of my further education, and lately, I've been feeling so burnt out, tired, depressed and etc. Because of school, I've been skipping classes a lot and showing up late, haven't done homework and etc. Because of my mental health. I've been thinking about taking a gap year for the past few months, and today my mother told me that she'd noticed my lack of passion for school, that she knew I was burning out, and that she supported me taking a gap year.
Fucking amazing, I'm crying happy tears because I feel so relieved.
The flipside is, that I feel like somewhat of a fuckup if I take a gap year, (obviously I don't see anyone else as fuckups if they take gap years, purely myself) and I don't really know how to go about it.
I'm doing this for my mental health, I'm doing this to better myself and to do something I'm passionate about, but it still feels so scary.