To think it's strange to feel so sad?

[jelmar]

I have been on a four month placement for my masters course. It has been, honestly, every single minute, a pleasure. I have had such a positive experience and have made strong relationships with staff and service users. I have gotten goodbye gifts and cards and will give them tomorrow. Today I met my practice teacher for lunch and said goodbye to her.

I am looking forward to the ten week break for summer but as I've been writing cards this afternoon I have felt so sad and have shed a tear or two.

Spoke to my mum who is due to retire and she said 'well think how I'll feel, you've only known them four months'. It's kind of made me feel embarrassed and like I'm being a drama queen.

Am I?

This has been my life for the past four months and I really feel sad it's ending. Is this normal to feel?

Hardly a drama queen, you enjoyed your time, obviously felt a big part of things and accepted onto the team as one of them. Natural to feel sad when something good ends. Don't beat yourself up about it, keep good memories and move on to the next thing.

This isn't about your dm, it's your feelings that count this time not hers.

Thanks

Placements can be full on and emotionally exhausting in my experience. Maybe it's a release of pressure?

If it makes you feel better, when I left my last role I had an uncontrollable crying fit and I just couldn't stop, so just walked out in floods of tears in the end. Embarrassing!

Does your mum always make things about her?

I think it’s normal to feel sad if you have been so happy there. Hopefully you can keep in touch?

Enjoy your time off!

Perfectly normal! Don't feel bad or let your mum make you feel that your emotions aren't valid.

Be sad now but happy you've had such a positive experience! Onto the next challenge!

It’s end of project blues… Quite normal to feel sad, but it will pass. Enjoy your break💐

Awww! If it makes you feel any better, I, too, bawled my eyes out at the end of a really lovely temp job. It was 6 of the best months in a job. I'd previously been at another company that was basically run by chimps. I'd joined this wonderful architecture team, and I did more fulfilling things in 6 months than in 3 yrs at the other place. Hopefully, your next employment is just as or even more pleasurable as this one was. GL!

Thanks so much everyone

I also had a bad experience in my last job, so was so lovely to be a part of a healthy work environment that I didn't lose sleep over and didn't dread going to

That's a shame

I always cry at the end of any kind of block of time where I've had some kind of shared experience with people.

Yeah they're happy tears but sad I won't see anyone again.

Things can change in a short space of time. One day we are single, the next we’ve met our future life partner. Hell, Rose only knew Jack for three days before he drowned with the Titanic but she was still going on about him like 70 years later.

Maybe you’ve made friends for life. Maybe you’ve found self-esteem you’d lost. Maybe you’ve learned new things. It’s totally normal and not shameful to feel sad about it ending.