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...After having a panic attack during a Calculus test and a second attack the next day, she approached her chemistry professor about her problem. Quinn says he responded “compassionately” and scheduled her an appointment at the Bureau of Study Counsel. He kept in touch with Quinn throughout the semester, inquiring about her appointment and providing academic and personal help...
...when Quinn told her Calculus teaching fellow about how the panic attack prevented her from completing the test, she got a far more discouraging response...
...reaction was like ‘Wow, that’s really weird,’” Quinn says. “I came at talking to teachers naively, thinking that I’m going to tell people that something’s wrong with me, and I expected some kind of support. I don’t think he’s a terrible person, but just that he didn’t know how to deal with...
...Quinn says she then tried to attend the Calculus professor’s office hours, but was told that those office hours were only for students in the professor’s sections...
...Quinn, however, it was the apathy of her TF—not the F on her transcript—that had a far more negative, enduring effect on both her academic experience and mental health. “I spent the rest of…the semester regretting that I had told him about that first panic attack,” Quinn writes. “I often told myself…that I should forget about that one terrible meeting; but in fact it colored the way I spoke and thought about mental illness more than any other experience...