Lazy Academic. Need Help ASAP

Fishnlines29
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:49:19 +0000

First of all, I think it’s great that you are reaching out for help with this early on because you have time to work on this prior to applying for college. Have you talked to your parents about your struggles? Lack of focus can be attributed to many things besides being lazy. Have you had a health check up recently? Are you sleeping? Anxious? Stressed? Eating healthy? From your grades and course load, clearly you are smart and people learn in different ways.

The previous posters have some good ideas, sometimes it’s just a matter of finding the right “study environment”. I always found if I had the tv on in the background or music playing, I could focus better.

I’m not a therapist but have family who had similar struggles - extremely smart, wanted to succeed but couldn’t focus and had a serious lack of organizational skills, messy room, etc. Feeling overwhelmed led to “freezing up” and doing mindless things, to kind of avoid everything. Turns out they had attention deficit disorder and didn’t find this out until dropping out of college freshman year.

I would recommend talking to your parents about your struggles, ask to see a therapist - try to find out the root cause of what is really going on in your head so you can learn about some new tools and coping skills that can help you focus and become better organized so that you can meet your goals in life.

I think it shows great maturity that you recognize this is a problem and I have no doubt you will be able to make a change and be successful!