I've just finished (October) two years of OU work to complete my degree (I did three years full time at Exeter).
I think it's great... well, I'll decide how great it is when I get my marks around Christmas!!
I think it's great, and especially great as it is more or less free to those with low or no wages.
I agree Celtic; any psychological condition is best approached body first; if you suffer from any problems, you are best off making sure you eat properly, exercise regulary, and sleep (or rest horizontally for those who have sleeping problems) a sensible amount.
The old saying 'a sound mind in a sound body' is pretty true, and only by eating, exercising and resting enough can we be sure we are not screwing up our psyche through an unhealthy life-style.
Drugs can have an affect as well. I am a die-hard pot smoker, but will be the first to say that some people are affecetd by it in more adverse ways than others, paranoia and anxiety being classic examples. They are especially bad, as they are counter-intuitive. You (not you personally, you as in one) would expect dope to chill you out, so you don't immediately identify them as being symptoms of cannabis use, and then you have to stop using cannabis (so much or at all), and as you have a preconception that cannabis relaxes you (and it does physically even if you get paranoid off it), you get anxious over stoping or cutting back, which makes you think that it's not cannabis making you anxious, but cannabis stopping you getting anxious, when in fact it IS cannabis making you anxious!
Angharad, what course are you doing? I did Modern Literature (now discontinued but I think there's a repalcement this year) and Shakespeare (bloody brilliant).
People living in glass paradigms shouldn't throw stones...
