Hi, I'm a 24 year old Af. Amer. and a single mom and I live in the backwards a** South. I am a college student working on my second and third degrees at a four year university. I am a great student, a nice person and I suffer from depression, anxiety disorders and personallity disorders. Anyway, one of my classes at the momen is Business Management and I the atmosphere that my professor creates and I want to do very well in that class. I tend to be shy outside the classroom and a little outspoken in class, and for a young black woman in the South that's usually not done.
The problem is that my professor has put our class into groups for some assignments, which I like because I like to bounce ideas off of other intellegent, receptive minds. The problem is that there's this older woman in my group who subtley hates me, just for being me. She outright ignores my suggestions and tries to no avail to make all of the men in our group stop staring at me ( if she only knew that I CAN'T date anyway, seeing as I blackout sometimes and get myself into unhealthy sexually based relationships).
She casually, LOUDLY mentiones one day that she works at the mental health facility that I used to go to alot, which totally intimidated me at first...but then again I am who I am. So now I speak up even more than before and keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. I have to admit that I'm TERRIFIED that she'll tell somebody my secret. I don't know what I'd do if it came out. If she works there isn't she legally bound not to reveal that I am a former mental health patient?
Btw me shutting up isn't an option.
The problem is that my professor has put our class into groups for some assignments, which I like because I like to bounce ideas off of other intellegent, receptive minds. The problem is that there's this older woman in my group who subtley hates me, just for being me. She outright ignores my suggestions and tries to no avail to make all of the men in our group stop staring at me ( if she only knew that I CAN'T date anyway, seeing as I blackout sometimes and get myself into unhealthy sexually based relationships).
She casually, LOUDLY mentiones one day that she works at the mental health facility that I used to go to alot, which totally intimidated me at first...but then again I am who I am. So now I speak up even more than before and keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. I have to admit that I'm TERRIFIED that she'll tell somebody my secret. I don't know what I'd do if it came out. If she works there isn't she legally bound not to reveal that I am a former mental health patient?
Btw me shutting up isn't an option.