An hour of feeling like myself, calm, confident, and on top of everything, followed by severe anxiety/depression/nervousnes which lasts anywhere from 5 minutes to the rest of the day. I tried Effexor, which made me want to kill myself one minute, then made everything ok the next. I constantly change my interests: One hour I know FOR SURE I want to go into Psychology, then the next hour the word psychology sounds stupid, and Marketing is the cool thing to do. If I say something another person might not like, I constantly go back and forth in my brain saying “it’s ok, what you said was fine”, followed by an extreme pondering of how it wasn’t fine, “I can’t believe I said that”. Some days I am completely interested in things, and other days I can’t believe I ever even considered what I had once thought. I just tried a DL-Phenylalnine supplement to increase dopamine levels, and within an hour I was emailing/applying/texting people about how badly I wanted to start my marketing career.
I can’t figure out whether or not my normal mood is “calmness” or “depression”. I haven’t been happy in so long. When I start to FEEL good, like today, I truly wonder if I’m being manic, or, just being myself.
I’m 20, Male, diagnosed with depression and anxiety when I was 17

Whenever I email my name shows up on the receiving end with my email address. I want it just to show the email address. How do I change that setting with YahooMail???

My dilemma is that I am a college freshman and have a chemistry Professor who is truly horrible at teaching. The entire class average is a 60. We try to ask questions in class and have him explain things, but he just laughs at us without answering. The tests never contain material that we are studying-always obscure stuff that is randomly taken from the back of the book; or outright trick questions designed to make you fail. He gives notes and tells us the test will be from this, but it never is. Now at the point of not being able to drop the class, he finally gives us our grades back. It took a mass emailing campaign to the department head to even get our first 2 test grades back to us to see how we are doing. We received them today and I failed both of them. Now I am sick because I must absolutely ace my next test and my final to even get out with the minimum grade. I have been studying and working with tutors and am studying 8 hours a day to prepare for the next tests and if I fail, I just feel like giving up altogether. I don’t know what to do. It’s not like I haven’t been trying. When I talk with others that have the same exact class, just different teachers, they are studying completely different material than my class. I am going to school on student loans so every class counts. To get into medical school I must make excellent grades or risk not being accepted. Don’t professors have some type of rules that they must follow and be accountable for their lack of proper teaching? I am more than willing to accept my own failings and lack of knowledge, but when does it become the responsibility of the professor to teach me?
I was told that this professor was removed from teaching another chemistry level class because of issues such as this. The department head is aware of his “teaching style” but apparently since he has tenure, they just let him continue…According to the rate my professor website, historically he states in his syllabus that he will drop lowest grade and then doesn’t. He has already said he won’t curve the grades, so I guess I am screwed….