Q: I'm a high school student about to enter into my last year of school. I suffer from social anxiety and have experienced depression of various intensities for a number of years, among other issues. Many of the symptoms of these combined issues have a great impact on my ability to study, such as the development of avoidant coping mechanisms like procrastination, inability to work in the company of others, or difficulty asking for help. Since school is incredibly stressful to me, I feel that I don't have the energy to seek help for my mental issues and keep up with my schooling at the same time, so I devised a plan by which I would totally ignore all of my feelings until my final exams are over, in order to concentrate fully on my work and achieve the results I know I am capable of, then take a gap year in which, with the intense stress of school finally over, I could fully dedicate myself to improving my mental health in whatever way I felt I had to. Unfortunately, feelings cannot simply be ignored without consequences, and I am afraid that by trying*to do one after the other I am only making it much harder to do either. So, my question is this: is this plan likely to do me serious harm?