Severe Anxiety and Homework

AnonyMom
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:25:42 +0000

Maybe a good accommodation for you would be to take fewer courses (or at least fewer demanding courses) at a time, so you have less work overall to deal with. You’d still arrive at the same academic destination; it would just take a little longer and be a lot less stressful. And it would leave you time to do some little extra things that were interesting/pleasurable for you without this sense of messing up your life by not staying on track in order to deal with a vast amount of required work. In this culture, we seem to put a lot of emphasis on being accellerated and advanced and on the fast track. And to what end? Ultimately, allowing yourself to take your time to gain a thoughtful, less stressful but still excellent education might be a better way to go.