/lit/ - Literature

>tfw I had a minor (though relative to most, major) psychological breakdown this afternoon and decided to reach out for professional help
>tfw I explained my intense anxieties and life-changing, non-trivial, very rare mental and intellectual turmoil to the older student who was assigned to guide me should I need their support at any point
>tfw they told me about the Class Act campaign (@ClassActOx) which helps students who have battled and struggled to escape and indeed transcend their humble (poor, uncultured, orc-like) childhood environments and have found themselves at the illustrious University of Oxford
>tfw afraid my email was too long or worrying and that they'll have me sanctioned or put on leave because they are scared of bad PR if I commit suicide
>tfw have no intention to do that but I'm aware that the keenest minds, the most gifted seers, the broadest intellects etc are typically those who fail most tragically to weather the storm of profound thought and shoulder the weight of the existential burden

Currently eating "Pot and Noodle" in my ancient college dormitory, the steam rising in a most coiling manner from the very hot water in which the noodles are becoming most soft and scentful. I simply can't bear to revise, or to read, or to do anything this afternoon but keep the curtains shut and wait for my rare, exclusive, mark-of-a-genius melancholy to give way to the scorching flame of heightened intellect and relentless ambition.

Please direct at least one of your thoughts, however trivial (and trivial they must be, I dare say) to my plight. I shall be grateful for any secular prayers you are willing to make in my name.