Yes, I agree with tiodlliwi about trying to make schoolwork fun and interesting. Anyway you can get two birds with one stone? I often use whatever I'm preoccuppied with in my schoolwork. If I catch something on TV I use it in a paper or I research in my school's library online and find my professor's doctoral thesis and get it to read and quote in papers.

Maybe get notecards (or cheap 3 x 5 notepad in colors) and put facts on them and put them various places kind of like a scavenger/easter egg hunt? Then you can wander and figit to your heart's content :-) Make it a game where you put things in 20 places and see if you can retrace the route in the "correct" order and memorize whatever is on the card like you would a poem. Heck, take all the facts/notes and make a poem! I've done that; written an entire paper in verse, getting in all the facts one is supposed to -- you've no idea how hard and focusing that is :-) You learn the material though, let me tell you.

Can you put your picking and anxiety into a "routine" so it tires your body out some? I read where people who grind their teeth, it's like your brain "twiddling its thumbs" and if you eat a bagel or apple before bed it uses that extra energy that gets expressed in your jaw so it's not there anymore. Maybe you can express the energy some way "quicker," or find a "bagel" equivalent habit? Do you know how to stretch/use a towel to stretch? That might help? http://www.humankinetics.com/product...xcerpt_id=4039 I bought a book on stretching that came with a blue "cloth" and taking the weight off my "shoulders" (putting it in the cloth) was a really awesome experience for me, felt great/like a "bagel."