Severe Anxiety and Homework

beargarden
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:01:41 +0000

Sounds a lot like me. When I was younger I used to cry over book reports and be absolutely convinced I was doing and horrible job and that it would be the end of the world…and then receive a perfect score every time. Never got through to me, in fact the one time I lost a point was because I had memorized my speech so well it sounded like i was reading it. Anyway last year it seemed that my anxiety did a complete flip from being a hampering motivator to a even more serious roadblock. I can’t do anything I want to do if there’s any expectation attached to it. Even things that I really want to do or would enjoy on my own anyway. I have to stall when doing my homework, calling my girlfriend, going out with any of my friends. It’s exactly like you said, everything is just another obligation and it’s impossible to start wittering your list down. At the same time, I’m thirsty and drinking in useless information constantly, but can’t pick up an actual book. This is not a very helpful post but…best advice I have is instead of doing the logical thing and starting with the smallest tasks, try tackling the larger projects. That way you get a lot more relief getting them out of the way and don’t have them looming over every one of your smaller demands…“I wrote that email I needed to, but I’ve still got that huge project thats going to decide my grade” kind of thing