All Forum Posts by: Farah Ali

Thank you everyone for your helpful comments! And Jon Holdman--I did not take offense or anything from your previous post, so no worries.

My therapist is a psychologist, so phd, not md, in which case I suppose he might have to make a referral for me. My next appointment with him isn't until next week, so I'm thinking in the meantime I should just go to my apt manager again and ask about the documention needed re illnesses...though since we talked about that clause she already knows I'm not physically sick..in which case I guess I'll be cornered into explaining that it's a mental/emotional thing.

The only thing that concerns me is how severe is severe enough for them. My depression is not debilitating to the extent that I ignore hygiene...but it has reached the point where it's too difficult for me to be productive (working towards my degree, carrying out my responsibilities as an instructor), and sometimes thoughts of harming myself, hence the needing to leave.

Fingers crossed they'll be understanding, and/or I manage to find a subleaser.

Thanks again!

Hi! I'm new here and trying to find the right place to post, so hopefully this is the right place!

I recently let my apt manager know that I will need to break my lease in a few months (end of March, so I've given 3 months notice) because I am dropping out of my graduate program, thus losing my assistantship/means of paying rent. In response, she told me the only option I have is to find someone to take over my rent for me (though the lease would still be in my name), because their policy on lease cancellation is that it's allowed only if (a) you die (b) you're so ill you have to leave school (c) drafted into military service.

At the time I didn't go into the details of WHY I dropped out of my program/am leaving, because I'm not sure it constitutes a severe enough illness, plus it's just personal and I felt embarrassed discussing it with her. But the thing is, I have severe depression, to the point that it's interfering with my personal and professional life, and so I made the decision to just leave my program, for the sake of my mental health. My question is, do you think this will satisfy the manager and/or landlord (perhaps with a note from my therapist or something) as grounds for lease cancellation, or does "illness" refer to something physical, and/or life-and-death like cancer?