Unless I decide to get my PhD in like twenty years, haha, this will be my last first day of school. I can't say I will miss the first day feeling. I am very nervous, even though the last time I was in a classroom was a month and a half ago since I took two summer classes throughout May, June, and July. I hate the whole introduction thing that most professors do...I know it's to break the ice but most of the time I really have to think to say something about myself. I know I still really need to work on participation in classes-I should not get all worked up about it but it still happens. I have always been shy but as I got older, I realized it formed more into anxiety---making me feel sick to my stomach at times. So I am fighting to get over this once and for all. I want to be the best social worker I can and social workers are supposed to be people persons anyways so I better get there :). I think this year is going to stretch me a lot further than last year but in the end I know it will teach me even more to take charge of things in my professional life to gain the tools I need for my future.
Today I start classes. I still need to figure out a few things before I can start my internship which is bugging me but it will be straightened out soon. My classes go as follows: Group Work on Mondays starting at three and then Applied Research six-thirty to eight or Field Instruction every other Monday. Wednesday I have Mental Health Multidimentional Assessment and Mental Health Theory from three to nine. Saturdays for the next five weeks I will be taking Death and Bereavement which I am both interested in and apprehensive about since I have had so much traumatic life experiences throughout my childhood and adolescence. I will be writing in depth about those experiences which will be both easy because I have so much first-hand experience and hard because I will have to relive some of the memories as I process everything. But I know that this self-awareness will just provide further healing and growth in end so I will get through it okay. I also will have to facilitate some sort of group through my internship so that will be another area which will stretch me this fall.
All this is not in vain though, I am following my dreams to help others and make a difference in life. I am ready as I can be for what is to come.
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Hi Sarah, thanks for visiting and commenting on my site! I think the topic of hoarding is very interesting in part because it gets to such a degree that it seems detrimental to someone's mental health (like you wrote), but it's so hard for the person experiencing the hoarding to stop the process of collection and to throw away things because of the emotional attachment s/he develop to things.
ReplyDeleteGood luck at your last year of school! I look forward to hearing about your experiences. :)
msw sarah,
ReplyDeleteenjoy your school time! i remember being in school and i couldn't wait to graduate. i had so much fun and made such good friends - people i work with and see still.
- cj social worker (houston)