I don't know if I'm "legit".

schoolmom
Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:18:11 +0000

I don’t know if I can completely answer your question, but I wanted you to know you are not alone in this problem. In fact, at first it sounded as if my son wrote this. He is currently a senior in hs and pretty much took a nose dive this last semester. Even though he was diagnosed with ADD inattentive type a few years ago and has been taking med.s for tha,t it hasn’t seemed to help much. In fact, things seem to have gotten worse. He sometimes goes 3 days in a row without sleep. He has missed several days of school( his school reduces grades for absences) due to this problem as well as his anxiety. He was recently diagnosed with anxiety/depression after nearly having a breakdown, but even on med.s for that, his sleep problem still persists. He has several college acceptances in hand due to his high test scores (ACT 33), even though his gpa is less than stellar, but at this point we are not sure if he will be ready to go to college next fall unless his other issues have been resolved. IMHO, you should not look at applying to other colleges until you resolve the sleep/anxiety/homework problem because honestly that problem will probably follow you to another school.