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Originally Posted by Perna
Your difficulties sound familiar to me though I have never had them as bad. If I had what you describe, I would feel they were basically symptoms of anxiety.
Do you do any reading for pleasure? If you have had years of isolation, I would not jump into a heavy-duty social and intellectual pursuit like college right away. I would spend more time being around people and adjusting to just that and pursuing interests rather than someone else's dictates required to get a degree. Even being good at something; if you are not enjoying pursuing/studying it, it can be very hard. Find people you enjoy being with, study interests you enjoy studying and then try the other is what I'd do.
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Thank you. It's been a year since I've come out of complete isolation and I've still not learned to adapt to the real world, and I'm working on that. I have no choice but to go to college, since I've already dropped out once and wasted a lot of money, I can't do it again.
I used to love reading for fun, but it's very difficult now, which makes it no longer enjoyable, unfortunately. I've been trying to reread a favourite book of mine and I still can't do it. The words get jumbled up in my head and nothing makes sense to me. That makes me quite angry, which then triggers my anxiety. So it's not really the anxiety that's causing me to have reading difficulties, but more so, the other way around.
I genuinely don't enjoy anything anymore, and I'm studying just so I can get a degree.. "in case". But now I can't even study, which truly stinks. Thank you again for your response, I hope you're well. Xx