It's the middle of final exam week and I have a panic attack tonight. That is just great. I don't even know what did it today. Yeah I am nervous about my exams but its not really that stressed. It might be that I saw my ex today and have been talking to him again lately. But I am just mad because I have had 2 really good months and now I am scared that I am going into a bad slump again. Who knows, I could be totally fine when I wake up tomorrow. I am hoping for that because I have my last exam at 9:30 in the morning, I don't want to be nauseous during it. I am just gonna brush over my notes in the morning, but right now I am gonna try to sleep this crap off. I hate the irrational thoughts it gives me and the feeling that I am always going to go crazy. Why can't I just live a normal college life like all people around me. It is hard to live in a dorm sometimes. The people don't know what I am going through and it gets hard to make excusses as to why I don't feel good sometimes. I have told a few of my close friends here at school, but not everyone I hang out with knows. I just wish it could all go away. Therapy and meds are slowly helping and my attacks don't last for days anymore. I am better at coping but I still hate the feeling of anxiety. It is the worst thing in the world and I wish it could go away for good. I never started feeling this way until i started school last year.
The feeling I am having is that if I try to sleep this off that I will still wake up with it in the morning. it sucks. any thoughts or suggestions that I could just read to get my mind off things tonight? It would mean a lot
Hey there,
Hang in there!
I too am a college student and I know what it feels like to have anxiety.. and the whole situation with your ex? Does not sound like fun at all. I\'m dealing with a lot regarding a guy I dated…relationships can lead to a lot of buried stress and anxiety that we don\'t even know about. 🙁 My advice is to take everything one thing at a time. Pick one thing to focus on and try your very hardest to focus on on it. In this case, it should be your exam(s) — focus on one at a time and overcoming these obstacles not as a group of everything, but as checking one thing off the list after the next. It can get really overwhelming when you think about everything going on.
As far as living in a dorm and having to make excuses, i don\'t think you have to make excuses… just be yourself and face your struggles as best you can – people don\'t need a reason for everything, you know yourself better than anyone else and what you they think doesn\'t matter. Plus, if you\'re like me, you probably think they\'re thinking about things way more than they really are. <3
Hang in there! It will get better.
Thanks for the advice