Have NC for this as details may out me. Last night I found out I have failed a professional exam I took late last year. Only by two marks, but still a fail.
Background - I had a caring responsibility on top of working full time and DP works away so it was exhausting and horrible and on top of the daily grind I wasn't getting to sleep through the night. This responsibility stopped just before Christmas and it has only been since returning to work after the Christmas break that I have felt I am back to my old self - I think I could well have been suffering from depression.
I told DP I failed the exam and he suggested asking for a re-mark (which I think is pointless, but that's by the by) and was generally supportive. He then went on to say, "Well you weren't sleeping at the time so maybe that had an impact". This comment has made me so angry because it fails to recognise the caring role I was in and the relentless grind of that on top of everything else. In the end I told him I was angry that he failed to properly acknowledge the pressure I was under at the time, but he didn't want to discuss it. We rowed about it at the time because he just couldn't see where I was coming from.
We had moved on I thought, but his continuing failure to acknowledge how rotten a time I was having has brought everything back and I am really hacked off with him.