u/Fickle-Theory-623

I honestly do not know if I should resign from teaching or if I am just severely burned out and emotionally exhausted.

I started teaching five years ago at a state college and, from the very beginning, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. I had essentially no mentorship or guidance starting out, made a lot of preventable mistakes early on, and spent years learning painful lessons the hard way. At the same time, teaching also became one of the most meaningful and fulfilling things I have ever done. I genuinely loved working with students and helping people learn.

The problem is that over time I started feeling like I was constantly creating frustration around me no matter how hard I tried. I would hear complaints, criticism, or negative backhanded feedback from faculty out of nowhere which led to me being told to my face that they will never allow me to interview no matter how many times I apply for FT. Eventually I started internalizing all of it. Recently, after moving to another campus hoping for a fresh start, I ended up dealing with a student complaint situation that hit me pretty hard emotionally. Nothing serious, just an 'A' student that felt my lab was a waste of her time and filed every single report that a student can file. They were also encouraged to file it by another campuses Dean, which caused me to see it as institutional hatred.

Now I am sitting here a few days before the semester starts seriously considering resigning altogether because I feel mentally and emotionally drained. Part of me feels like I am simply not cut out for academia despite how much I cared about it. Another part of me wonders if I am just burned out and taking everything too personally after years of stress.

For those of you who have been in teaching for a long time: Have you ever hit a point where student complaints and faculty politics just broke you emotionally? How do you tell the difference between burnout and genuinely being a bad fit for the profession? Did stepping away help, or did you regret leaving?

I know this probably sounds dramatic, but I honestly feel lost right now and would appreciate outside perspectives.

I completely took apart my cooling system, scrubbed the pipes and rinsed, same for rads and all blocks. Put in new fluid, everything was clear. One day later, the water just started clouding up all over again in front of my eyes when I turned the system on. Someone please help me understand what happened? Should I have added something to the system prior to draining bc something was waiting to be dislodged or is rotting somewhere in the system? Corsair pump and CPU block, corsair rads, corsair clear coolant.

So my biggest issue is sleep anxiety in the evenings and has been for decades. I would list my age and gender, but afraid of doxxers, so i will say early 40s and possibly male. What are all of you doing to improve evening sleep pressure and sustained sleep for 7-8 hours consistently? What do all of you personally do, what stuck and worked consistently for you? Sick of using hydroxyzine and waking up angry.

currently taking 100mcg a day and have been for 20 years, endo wants me to add 50mcg once a week and I am petrified of doing this. Occasionally my TSH spikes and has been recently caught near 7. My endo has tried to increase it in the past and I quit before two weeks because of side effects. no idea how i managed this as a young adult. how do you folks push through minor dose increases and the side effects that accompany it?

My TSH has been all over the past few years but somewhat consistent around 2.5ish. I had a corticosteroid injection 10 days prior to blood work, and my TSH came back at 6.3, free T4 was 1.5, and T3 was 2.2. I also struggle with low testosterone and it has been consistently falling for the past year well into the red marks, was already low at 320 and is now at 211. Could the corticosteroid shot cause my TSH to whiplash like that, or is it time for me to bite the bullet and deal with the horrific side effects of an increase in meds? I usually have a general feeling of anhedonia....any advice appreciated, thanks

I need to know if anyone in here has had experience with this. Due to my stupidity I popped a line trying to force a drain by adding air and clear corsair xc coolant went everywhere and some dumped into the PSU. Everything was off, I started drying everything using compressed air and paper towel to blot, but cannot open the PSU, so I did what I could to rotate and get it all dumped. Since this morning the PSU has been under a fan getting air dried. Will this effectively fix the issue, or is my PSU cooked no matter what?