Hey Marina,

In response to your other link, I'm studying Community Education at the uni of Canberra. It's all about community development and adult education. What I like about it is that when (or if) I finish I'll be able to work in really anything that interests me, it's very broad. For my final year I've been doing a year-long project together with a community organisation in Canberra, but it's become too difficult with my health so I'm going to postpone the rest of the project until next year.

Study was always my priority for me - I gave up work when I became unwell so I could finish studying. My lecturers have been really flexible with me and allowed me to listen to lectures online and not come to tutorials this year. (I'm not sure if they would have allowed that if I was just starting the whole degree though.) I wouldn't have been able to get this far without that flexibility as I've been housebound for a while. I'm also trying to be mindful of not being a perfectionist with my assignments - perfectionism is so unhealthy but really really hard for me to control!

Your course in Social Development sounds fantastic. I'd be happy to workshop ideas with you about going back to study, when you come to that. In my experience CFS and study have been hard to balance but not impossible.
jules