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My first semester of college was pretty terrible and I got bad grades. I didn't fail any classes, but I finished my freshman year with a 2.9 GPA. This was due to my severe anxiety and depression, which only got worse when I started college. I was diagnosed the summer before my sophomore year and was able to take medication. I'm doing a lot better now, and my grades reflect that. I was thinking of mentioning it as the reason my grades were so bad, but after looking it up, I see that a lot of people actually encourage you not to do that. I understand that there is a lot of stigma surrounding mental health, especially with older generations, but I really don't know any other way to explain my bad grades. I wasn't thinking of trauma dumping, but just explaining what kind of held me back and how I got better. Should I do it? Has anyone else mentioned it, and how did it go?
