OCD/Anxiety affecting overall performance in HS

zannah
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 04:32:48 +0000

You are pretty early in learning how to manage an anxiety disorder. Getting medication regulated can be difficult. It takes weeks to arrive at the correct dosage and even the most successful medication for you. After that, your body must adjust to medication as the new normal. Medication for a chronic condition is different from taking antibiotics for a throat infection.

After medication settles in you will need to recognize how the medication works and what lingering problems with anxiety persist. When is anxiety worse, how do you recognize anxiety and what you can do to modify it when medication is not helpful. Learn how to control anxiety when it occurs. There is bunches you will need to learn to recognize anxiety and control it. This in no way means you won’t do well in school. For example, if you can’t focus on reading, read aloud.

Be sure you learn test taking techniques and how how you calm it. Mentally celebrate when you know you got a hard question right. Expect to do about as well as you typically do an standardized testing. You could fell pretty drained right after leaving, but that doesn’t control or predict your scores. Best wishes.