Why do I feel like this?

[Flatstanley69]

I found out on Tuesday that I got a first in my degree. I feel nothing, no sense of pride or happiness. Has anyone else felt like this?

Scared of what the future holds? Still in work mode?

Well done! Maybe not sunk in yet? Apprehensive about the future? Bit of an anti-climax now all your hard work is finished?

Well I've working during it so will continue to do it so don't think I'm worried about the future.

It's weird but I think we don't feel things that are good in the same way we feel them if they are bad. I.e. The good feeling you get from finding a tenner is nowhere near the bad feeling of having -£10. I'm sure there's some psychology involved.

Try and imagine how shit you'd feel if your failed and then try and be as proportionally happy? Difficult, I know.

Oh my god this was me 1 month ago. Felt/feel nothing and some how it has triggered depression. I should be so happy but I feel empty and weirdly my self confidence has gone.

Blanca - that's also me, I have no self confidence either.

When I passed my professional qualification, 3 years of intense study which the added risk of being fired for failing any of the exams, I thought I'd feel elated. I felt nothing for about 2 months. I really think that it took that long for my body to relinquish all the pent up stress it had built up.

It's probably just a processing thing - you're coming out of one very intense state and now it's ended you need time to let it settle.

Congratulations on getting the First :)

I felt the same about my First - just relief, and then just flatness. It was an anti-climax after all the hard work!

That is brilliant, well done! Perhaps you are totally stunned at the moment to have done so well? Better to be a bit flat than totally gutted with a poor result. Just be kind to yourself OP.

Sort of (albeit mine was "just" a 2:1). You've worked insanely hard towards this for years and now you've got it. So what now? You have reached your goal so now you need a next step and a new one. Excitement, uncertainty, pressure and exhaustion might just cancel out into "meh" for a while. Take a few weeks to chill out.

PS well done!!

I didn't feel happy or proud until the graduation ceremony.

I know what you mean. At your graduation ceremony you might feel differently though.

Well done for all your hard work