My Negative Binding Study

An one-year or two-year gap request

Dear BSA Committee of the Faculty of Law,

This is Yilong Lin, a second year PPLE student.

Last year I applied for a postponement of my Negative Binding Study Advice due to my depression. A year later, now, the personal circumstance is not improving. Even though it is quite painful, I have to admit that I cannot hold the depression without a gap from the university. Hence I apply for it, an one-year, two-year or half a year gap. And on top of that, I need to apply a suspension of my Negative Study Advice. These are needed for the benefit of my health and for my study: a suspension and a gap allow me to have the free time and space that are necessary for my recovery and prevent me from losing the chance of

One significant problem was the reduced consciousness when reading, listening and communicating. It made me harder to be aware of what I was doing and what others were doing. Besides, my thinking and behavioural responses to the surroundings were slowed down. Hence I had problem in the lectures and tutorials. The memory ability was also weakened. The result was, in the first block, I could not follow the pace of the class, I felt I was trapped in a slow motion world that I could not follow up the world of others. Apart from the attention issue, I had panic and nervousness problem. when at home, I could be extremely unrestful, panic, nervous, to the extent that, I failed to start the essay outline, the draft, and the final essay successively for the History of Legal Theory course. In the same block, I tried to keep up with the PPG. But I always felt very unenergetic and had the feelings of non-involvement. The depression sometimes went so bad that I cried until the mid-night and only after that I was able to prepare for the presentation of the next day. What mad it worse, around three days before the exam of the first block, I got acute dental neuritis and the extreme pain brought me to the dentist. The taking of painkillers made me sleepy the rest few days, which combined with my depressive heaviness, was disaster for exam preparation. I gave up the