Advice on Studying! Can't decide!

[tashasplace]

I have been on the Gupta programme for 6 weeks and the results have been amazing!! ( i love you ashkok!) I love to dance salsa and have managed to be dancing a lot more, have caught up on all my housework, and generally am out and about much more than i was before!!! I recommend this programme to anyone who is in any doubt, you have nothing to loose! I can feel i am on the way, but have to be careful, am currently experiencing a little dip!

I have just finished my second year of studying to be a homeopath and was intending to take a year out now to fully recover. i have two more years to go. But am feeling like maybe i should just continue studying as if i keep improving it will be a shame to waste a year! I am feeling apprehensive at this and am using the Stops to stop worrying about it!! I would like to hear from those who are working whilst on the programme and if it is working for them, or those that did study whilst doing it and if it was too much and hindered the recovery. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks guys.xx

[neil25]

Hi there, just wondering whats your background , such as your age and how long you've had cfs for? i am 24 and only got dignosed 5 months ago, i was in my final year at uni. i decided to go back this september but was a very bad idea after a couple of weeks my health started getting worse the stress of studies was too much for me to take. ive now decided to take a full year out so i can get better. My advice is see how you feel if you cope with it by all means continue with the studying but if you think its affectin your health i would drop out for now it's only a year.

[Lydia]

Hello,
I do the program consistently and often for two days. As well, as 15 years go to me no longer. (Better)
I am perfectly overwhelmed before joy. I have CFS for 20 years, first sporadically, for 15 years remaining.
Greeting, Lydia (German, therefore my English is not good)

[CS1]

[quote="tashasplace"]I have been on the Gupta programme for 6 weeks and the results have been amazing!! ( i love you ashkok!) I love to dance salsa and have managed to be dancing a lot more, have caught up on all my housework, and generally am out and about much more than i was before!!! I recommend this programme to anyone who is in any doubt, you have nothing to loose! I can feel i am on the way, but have to be careful, am currently experiencing a little dip!

I have just finished my second year of studying to be a homeopath and was intending to take a year out now to fully recover. i have two more years to go. But am feeling like maybe i should just continue studying as if i keep improving it will be a shame to waste a year! I am feeling apprehensive at this and am using the Stops to stop worrying about it!! I would like to hear from those who are working whilst on the programme and if it is working for them, or those that did study whilst doing it and if it was too much and hindered the recovery. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks guys.xx[/quote]




The answer depends on where you are at in your recovery if you ave only been doing the programme for 6 weeks,

I would seriously think about aking some time out to make a full recovery

I can now seriously really think about my future after being on the programme for 6 months


Regards
CS

[Jj85]

I made the decision to start law school mainly because I felt that my health was on the rebound. It's been a little difficult-- I know that my brain isn't yet operating at the speed it used to be able to-- but at the same time, I find that being engaged in something, and having a sense of accomplishment at the end of each day, actually does a lot towards making me feel less stressed and depressed (as I felt when I was unemployed before beginning school). So my health has continued to improve the longer I've been here. And as stressing as school can be at times, I find that I can really relax if I'm able to make myself feel at peace with the worst possible scenario (ie, get really sick and have to drop out). Doing this prevents panic attacks (which for me can cause bad relapses) before they begin.

So I guess, in short, if you feel like you can currently do the work adequately, you might find that it's better for your sense of well-being to be doing something, and not to be committing a year of your life to this illness.

[ldg]

Is it possible that you could continue part time?

[CS1]

part time suggestion sounds good...

[tashasplace]

Hi guys!!

Thanks for all your replies! I have had CFS for 3 years diagnosed 5 months ago, then i hit rock bottom and found the gupta programme, which is an absolute blessing. I have to go away to study one weekend a month, i got through last year but i was suffering the whole way through, then crashed out at the end of the summer. I am 30. It is a tough decision to make this one, i completely agree that having something to focus on is important, i can feel the winter kicking in and thinking how i am going to occupy myself if not studying. I am highly driven, and would find it tough to stop for a year. I have got a couple of assignments to catch up on and am having study week this week to see how i get on, i can feel that it is putting pressure on my amygdala already, but am trying to do short bursts of study followed by meditations and generally chilling out. I think the comment made above is so true, just try it, be at peace with the worst case scenario, that i have to drop out and keep patting myself on the back for the small achievements of each day. Thanks again for all your replies, no one can give you advice than others in your situation, unfortunately no one else understands. Bless you all and hope you all make full recoveries.xxxx

[tashasplace]

Hi, just out of interest JJ85, how long have you been on the gupta programme?

[Sylvia]

I'm here with you.

I'm planning on starting school this January I'm at 60-65% recovered. Then I caught a cold and have had a dip. I too think that going to school will make me feel I've got a forward momentum to my life. And I struggle with Ashok telling us to NOT START SCHOOL OR WORK until 80% recovered for at least 6 months. But oh, being 46 as seeing time pass, I'll miss a year or more of school and it will be that much longer until I can make money. I'm not really suited to doing anything after 20+ years ill.

Such a hard decision.

Harder for me is deciding what career I want to go to school for!

Good luck to you, I wouldn't trade these HARD decisions for anything. Thank you Ashok for making our lives more complicated. Vs. staying on the couch watching TV!

[neil25]

i tried studying part time, but it was so difficult just staying awake in class for three hours, it completly drained me physically and mentally. i found that i could do about an hour maximum a day of study this nowhere near enough to get through my course as it is final year studies. my lecturer reccomends at minimum 16 hours a week. i also had a dissertation to do which would probably take up another 12 hours a week, this in total is 28 hours a week of study. Another problem i found was my brain fog, reading a 20 page journal took me all week, when it used to take me about a day. i intially decided to go back to take my mind of cfs but it made it worse. so now i just try and commit myself to the gupta programme.

[Jj85]

Hi Tasha,

I just started. In fairness, I had already recovered a lot from my lowpoint by the time this fall rolled around. I should say, in some ways I feel a little guilty even posting here, as my illness is now at the point where it seems very manageable, in relation to the things you guys are putting up with now (and that I was putting up with months ago). So I don't want my advice to be taken with too much weight-- as it is, I have days now where I really do feel completely healthy. Exercise and other stressful situations still cause problems, so I won't say that I've actually been cured yet, but I'm just in a much better place. But it does sound like your condition is still very difficult, so maybe I shouldn't be commenting. I can relate to the study-then-meditate method. Last night in the library, I was getting pretty jittery with all the work I had, so I had to go to the bathroom, sit in a stall, and do S&F for 10 mins...

All I can vouch for, in regards to this sort of stuff, is the following:
-When I was most worried about my career/school, my symptoms were the worst. Thoughts of deferring school and living with my parents terrified me, and that stress only added to the sort of vicious cycle Ashok talks about. The fact was, I shouldn't have been, and shouldn't be, worried about this stuff. Worrying only makes things worse.
-In that vein, the turning point, for me, came when, instead of feeling like I was "fighting" CFS, I decided instead to try to accept my condition as deeply as possible, without any regrets about what I'd lost, or sadness about what I might not be able to do in the future. It was as if, by luck, I was starting Ashok's program without even knowing.
-It does seem like I'm the rare person with CFS who doesn't have a type A personality-- this was probably very helpful.

Lastly, try to get some clonazepam. That's been the one drug that's really helped with my symptoms (calms me down and even seems to help with brain fog).

[Chronicfatiguetreatments]

Lastly, try to get some clonazepam. That's been the one drug that's really helped with my symptoms (calms me down and even seems to help with brain fog).

I find that clonazepam helps with my brain fog also, benadryl does too. I dont really understand why but it always has. Thats one of the reasons i though a mediatation program would work for me. I use it for sleep, but my head always clears up some after i take them and am about to got to sleep