[gail43]

Hi all,

Can someone please help me !!
I am in a right state and don't know what to do. I thought the adult education where I am are suppose to support me through thick and thin aren't. They have a learner support team and I feel totally let down emotionally and psychollogically by them.
I am 44 and a fairly intelligent woman. There is a 'problem' concerning my biology tutor and I don't know what to do I have put a lot into the course and I feel that everyone in the class knows something especially one particular woman who he says he is good friends with.
He thinks l see him as if I want to 'see him' shall l say.
The head of dept is now involved and I was in A+E just before xmas over it all. He actually spoke to me face to face out how he felt after all this time. He was like a different person.

[mld]

Hi Gail,

Is there a mental health support worker where you are at? For example, at Canterbury College we have a mental health worker and she steps in when I feel uncomfortable about something. I'm 49 and in a class of A Level students doing maths, but Liz is great and has helped by talking to the tutors I have had.

Great to see you on the board, keep in contact,

M.

[gail43]

mld, on 27 January 2012 - 08:20 PM, said:

Hi Gail,

Is there a mental health support worker where you are at? For example, at Canterbury College we have a mental health worker and she steps in when I feel uncomfortable about something. I'm 49 and in a class of A Level students doing maths, but Liz is great and has helped by talking to the tutors I have had.

Great to see you on the board, keep in contact,

M.

Hi M,
The problem is that 'they don't have a mental health support worker'. The Hod is also the head of the learner support team. The college is an extremely small one and alot of students have learning disabilities shall I say. Put it this way 'the tutor has covered his back' and has admitted it to me face to face after two months after the 'event' shall I say and I feel now I don't have stand on and my depression is kicking in and I'm getting low. I'm not eating my epilepsy has taken a turn for the worst and I can't get enough sleep

[mld]

gail43, on 27 January 2012 - 08:43 PM, said:

Hi M,
The problem is that 'they don't have a mental health support worker'. The Hod is also the head of the learner support team. The college is an extremely small one and alot of students have learning disabilities shall I say. Put it this way 'the tutor has covered his back' and has admitted it to me face to face after two months after the 'event' shall I say and I feel now I don't have stand on and my depression is kicking in and I'm getting low. I'm not eating my epilepsy has taken a turn for the worst and I can't get enough sleep

Hi Gail, Sleep is very important especially if you suffer from depression, (I know).
I don't know what else you can do - your situation seems to be stuck. But there has to be a way through.
You also need to eat, not eating will also have an effect on all the medications you take as well.

Ummm.... Do you have anyone who can act like an advocate - like a CPN, or a support worker of some kind. I presume the college is the one which begins with an H, I will put on my thinking cap and see if I can think of something else.

Perhaps someone else on the site may think of something too.

Have a good weekend,

M.

[Spartikus Rex]

Sounds like harrasment. If you can gather credible evidence then you should. Usually there is a policy on these matters.