[PeachCream22]

Hello everyone......I really need to know what's going on here. Please, please, please, any insight, thoughts, opinions would be very much appreciated.

I can't focus on my exams. And I try to motivate myself into doing so, right? I think: "Hey, this is for your future, you don't want to disappoint your friends or your family, you want to get to a good university, THIS is the BIG DEAL. THIS IS IT. there's no turning back! You don't want to repeat your A lvls while everyone else is going to uni!"

BUT IT DOESN'T WORK! usually it scares me to work hard, but this time it doesn't. It's like I've given up and become helpless. I'm a failure no matter what i do, and my friends and family think otherwise. Maybe I'm sooo pressured i'm not able to work properly. I only feel emptiness and...nothing. I WANT to feel something! I want to feel motivated and alive to do work!! but i can't !!! Maybe i'm just depressed, IDK! help! I don't want to be a failure...but there's no incentive to work!!! It's never happened before! It's scaring me...

[eblam81]

Hey, you need to step away for a bit. First of all...how long have you been going at this? Maybe it's been too long at one time. I have ADD and I'm taking classes at the University on-line and it stresses the hell out of me at times, and I never did well in school before in my life but now I'm so determined, I've been getting all "A's". I just calm myself down in whatever way works for me...even if I have to shut out the world...it's that important. OR...if everything else is on your mind and you have to do something else and that's bugging you out, go do that first, then relax, eat, take that shower or bath, take your meds if you have to, settle into your area where you study, or take your exams, and get it done! Just do it....

[PeachCream22]

Quite long...for months maybe. I don't know what triggered it, maybe it's because of relationship problems...I've become hopeless, lowered self-esteem, dejected, and all-round failure. I've been trying to work around it...and it hasn't gotten worse, but it hasn't gotten better either...I'm stuck in a rut. I keep on trying to forget, but I end up not getting any work done at all!! Because I keep trying to face the problem, and then I just don't know how to make it go away! And it's distracting me from work! And if I cannot work....that's heading for a disastrous future.

I am scared and I'm worried, but i think you're right to an extent. Maybe I'm so stressed I'm frozen now. I just zone out and stop doing anything. Time stands still in my head. And I can't get out!