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I just don't understand why I cant beat this!

  • 04-03-2009 1:18am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I am currently repeating my final year after failing the second semester last year because I was unable to hand in my dissertations.

    Concentration has always been a major problem for me since my earliest school days (I was a smart kid with a reading level five times above average but I was always the kid who had one word written or maybe just the margin drawn when everyone else was finished) but last year I found that I could not concentrate at all and would get very anxious when trying to write an essay etc. Before I was able to churn out a 2000 word essay in one day and usually got nothing lower than a b.

    After a while I felt anxious all the time and could not get myself off to sleep, most nights I wouldn't get asleep until 6 in the morning.

    long story short I was diagnosed with depression and generalised anxiety disorder and put on meds. The college agreed to let me repeat just my failed modules for free which was a great relief.

    I feel a lot better now than before but still not 100% and thought I would be ok to go back to college. However I seem to have a mental block or fear when it comes to sitting down and doing work, I avoid it at all costs and feel anxious when I try to do it. Dissertation deadlines are looming again and I haven't any work done at all really. I can see this being a replay of last year and am really regretting not taking the year off. If this happens again I cant see the college being so generous again. I feel like such a screw up.

    I went to one session of cbt but it just seemed stupid to me, "think positively" well no **** Sherlock! I don't really know what I want people to tell me I just needed to get this off my chest. Thanks for reading.


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  • #2
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    i would take a lot at your diet sweets coke excess coffee intake etc...

    Im dyslexic and slight a.d.d and when i have stupid amount of coffee sweets coke club orange etc i suffer hugley form lack of concintration

    How ever when i keep my suger intake down and insted of coke i drink fruit juice or ribena, kiora etc... fruit or Peenuts casue nuts dark choclet and i find my concintration is better i do drink coffee a lot of coffe but i still think my conicntration is better... when i avoid coke fanta club orange etc there's to many artifioul colouring's etc never help if its late at night drink ice cold water with mints its a really good way of satying wake or keeping freash...


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