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Originally Posted by DesigningWoman
No one is born with great School/study skills. Everyone has to learn what works for them to get their desired grade.
For instance, I want top grades. So I try to figure out what has to be done when and at what pace to achieve that result. I have plenty of friends who are B and C level students. They do what they need to do to get those grades. I use a paper planner to pace myself and keep track of assignment due dates, but I know plenty of people that use free online services like Google calendar to keep track.
Try and be honest and realistic with yourself. If you struggle with writing, you will need more than two hours the night before the write a term paper.
It is time to start working on these skills. If you want to go to college or votech after high school, you will have to have these down. Stress is a huge trigger for mental illness flare ups. Waiting until the last minute to try and get something done or sweating if you passed a class is definitely stressful. Passing becomes a huge deal in college where failing can have immediate financial repercussions.
Even if higher Ed isn't in your plan, Learning to plan, organize, pace, accomplish tasks, and study is integral to surviving post high school in whatever you decide to do from waiting tables to brain surgery.
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But see, here is my problem. I cannot for the life of me plan out what to do with study. I will sit down and open the book, and then stop because I have no clue what to do. Do I read the thing? And even so, most of the things we have on tests are not even in the book and are just said in class, wait no, passed on to the class from the teacher. And then my mental illnesses will trigger because I am actually doing something so now I will be going to drink water, make a sandwich, shower, think about my life, go outside to walk the dog that I don't have, exercise, eat, regret eating, call a friend, regret calling a friend, it will hit me that I have not drank my pills in about a week, go out to buy pads because my period is in 5 days, think of how miserable my life has gotten, get depressed, drink something, drink some more, get drunk, and realize I am so damn exhausted because I haven't slept in like a week, start yelling and the nothing because I am hearing something, lock every door 20 times because paranoia hits in, and make a DIY project that looks like crap.. I don't know if studying is a massive trigger for my ADHD and depression and everything else I would not like to talk about, but it always happens, so I just stop studying all together cus.. I skip those stuff.