As we all know, final exams are coming up. For the average student, it may be difficult to manage time, sort out one’s responsiblities, and organize your week’s work. However, then there are those of us with disabilities and illnesses who may at times struggle with the requriements of unversity life. I have been diagnosed with depression and anxiety and have found it difficult to cope at time.Â
Here are some general tips and tricks that anyone can use, but specifically for my mental health peeps:
1. Do things slowly and at your own pace
If your motivation is low and you cannot get out of bed the very idea of homework and studying you have to work on can make it all seem too big and back to bed you go. Then again it could also just stress you out and make you feel overwhelmed to the nth degree. It is so important to break up big assignments into small and manageable pieces. That essay? Make an outline. That test? Call a friend, study together.
2. You are never alone
It feels like that a lot of the time. You can always feel like the only one in trouble and the only one who has no idea what you are doing. You never are. Some of your friends are going through it, your parents have gone through it, and one day your little sibling is going to go through it. So you will have someone talk to at any point in your life who is going to understand you and help you with the work if you just ask. Take that step.
3. Don’t think so far ahead
For those of us with high nerve levels we tend to think way into the future. You name it, we have thought about the worst thing that could happen. The problem is, it has not happened yet and it probably will not. Pull yourself back into your body when you start to phase out, and stay in the moment with the work that is happening right now. Do not worry yourself to sickness about issues that are not real, when you stay in today stress goes down by many levels and you always feel better.
I know it’s tough but we can do this!
HEADS UP