I am thinking of dropping out of university for the time being and taking a year off to get back on my feet. I am in the first year of my master's degree, and it has been kicking my butt. I feel so guilty and ashamed for carrying on "knowing" how severe my depression was. I was only trying to get out of a really bad environment at home and going back to uni abroad was my only option. Now that I am here, I realize that the diagnosis I received was not simply a situational one and the effects of severe depression are actually ruining my life. It is really ruining my life.

Every time I think about it, I want to scream because I have no one to talk to about this.

I wanted to come on here and ask if anyone else has had any success stories on dropping out and things working out once they have gotten the help they needed.