People are starting to think that I am faking my illness which I have been diagnosed by a doctor?

About 2 months ago I started to have very common and nasty diarrhoea. No one really knew why (including myself) and I started to miss a lot of school.

About 2 months ago I started to have very common and nasty diarrhoea. No one really knew why (including myself) and I started to miss a lot of school.

I recovered from that in about a month and went back to school! First day back at school I had incidents with a couple of teachers who obviously weren t impressed with my absences, I was shouted at and threatened with punishments.

That made me just not want to go anywhere near those teachers so I started to develop anxiety in those lessons and in the end just missed them completely, it spiralled out of control a bit and I started missing way more school!

About a week later I caught exactly what I had before but this time is was quite a bit worse. Also teachers started to notice my absences and contacted my housemaster (I m at boarding school.)

My housemaster then came to me and basically told me everything he had been told by those teachers and I explained my side to the story. He (being a very nice man) was understanding and got me to see the school counsellor for my anxiety.

At the same time as this, I was developing the illness from before again. I worked with the counsellor for a while who helped me quite a bit for my anxiety.

The diarrhoea and nausea continued despite my lack of anxiety but everyone (except me) just assumed it was related. One morning I asked if I could go see a doctor which was agreed to and he found that I had campylobacter. So I was given a medication to help it (which makes it worse until you are completely off it and that was meant to be that.

But the week is a 2 week course so I was still having (not as bad) diarrhoea, and basically even though everything has been explained to the matron who is looking after the boys in our house. She continues to believe I am either faking or still having anxiety so she just sends me into lessons despite me being about to have a bout of diarrhoea and it is making me feel awful.

The medication course goes on for another week and a half so any help in what I should do would be appreciated. The fact that people keep telling me that I will fail all my exams if I don't go to school, when I still try to do the work just out of lessons/ when I'm not being ill, really doesn't help and to be honest just puts more strain on me.

Thanks if you managed to read all this (I know it was long but I had a lot to say) and all help is great.

or:About 2 months ago I started to have very common and nasty diarrhoea. No one really knew why (including myself) and I started to miss a lot of school. I recovered from that in about a month and went back to school! First day back at school I had incidents with a couple of teachers who obviously weren t impressed with my absences, I was shouted at and threatened with punishments.That made me just not want to go anywhere near those teachers so I started to develop anxiety in those lessons and in the end just missed them completely, it spiralled out of control a bit and I started missing way more school!About a week later I caught exactly what I had before but this time is was quite a bit worse. Also teachers started to notice my absences and contacted my housemaster (I m at boarding school.)My housemaster then came to me and basically told me everything he had been told by those teachers and I explained my side to the story. He (being a very nice man) was understanding and got me to see the school counsellor for my anxiety.At the same time as this, I was developing the illness from before again. I worked with the counsellor for a while who helped me quite a bit for my anxiety.The diarrhoea and nausea continued despite my lack of anxiety but everyone (except me) just assumed it was related. One morning I asked if I could go see a doctor which was agreed to and he found that I had campylobacter. So I was given a medication to help it (which makes it worse until you are completely off it and that was meant to be that.But the week is a 2 week course so I was still having (not as bad) diarrhoea, and basically even though everything has been explained to the matron who is looking after the boys in our house. She continues to believe I am either faking or still having anxiety so she just sends me into lessons despite me being about to have a bout of diarrhoea and it is making me feel awful.The medication course goes on for another week and a half so any help in what I should do would be appreciated. The fact that people keep telling me that I will fail all my exams if I don't go to school, when I still try to do the work just out of lessons/ when I'm not being ill, really doesn't help and to be honest just puts more strain on me. Thanks if you managed to read all this (I know it was long but I had a lot to say) and all help is great.

or:This is probably no help whatsoever, but you could get an official letter from the doctor who diagnosed you and you could show it to your teachers. Sorry if this didn't help.

or:So long as your housemaster understands the situation then it's not an issue as he is the one who, ultimately, has the say on anything. If the teachers or matron either don't believe you or aren't convinced it really doesn't matter.

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