Also, thanks Anna342, what you say rings very true with me - I should just speak to my profs., after all they are all biology or psychology professors this semester (and thus should have at least a basic understanding of bipolar and social phobia disorders), the problem is gaining the courage to speak up about what my problems are. Which I am working on, slowly but surely -systematic desensitization, not immediate, after all. And yes, technically, here in the US at least, the ADA guarantees provisions for alternative testing/teaching for those with psychiatric disorders, but I've never signed up with Disability Services here at the uni (mainly because I was hypomanic when I came here and thought I would never need it).