Hello everyone , I'm new and wanted some help with my experiences. I experience a traumatic event about 4 months ago, just a little while after I finished my undergraduate degree. The rest of the summer, I had a real loss of motivation and did almost nothing for the rest of the summer until I had to attend graduate school. Back then I thought I would be ok, but since then have been having symptoms of what seems to be PTSD.
Fast forward to now, I have been struggling massively with graduate school, I am more then certain I will fail my classes and have been having a hard time concentrating on school work , this is not at all how I envisioned my graduate school experience and I have been having major motivational problems. I haven't gone to be diagnosed yet, but plan on doing so tomorrow.
My question, how can I really know if my potential PTSD is affecting my school work ? I am scared that I may be using PTSD as a scape goat for my poor academic performance and I'm trying to be honest with myself but I don't know how graduate school would have turned out if all of this had never happened to me?
Thoughts ?
I'm sorry if it sounds slightly incomprehensible, I only started looking up the symptoms of PTSD 3-4 hours ago and thought it all fit very well for the conditions I have been under.
Fast forward to now, I have been struggling massively with graduate school, I am more then certain I will fail my classes and have been having a hard time concentrating on school work , this is not at all how I envisioned my graduate school experience and I have been having major motivational problems. I haven't gone to be diagnosed yet, but plan on doing so tomorrow.
My question, how can I really know if my potential PTSD is affecting my school work ? I am scared that I may be using PTSD as a scape goat for my poor academic performance and I'm trying to be honest with myself but I don't know how graduate school would have turned out if all of this had never happened to me?
Thoughts ?
I'm sorry if it sounds slightly incomprehensible, I only started looking up the symptoms of PTSD 3-4 hours ago and thought it all fit very well for the conditions I have been under.