Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I just feel like I can't do anything right. My teachers have always complained about how slow I am at learning things compared to my other classmates. I always need to get tutoring and extra help when learning new things and doing my homework. I especially struggle with math and science. This past month has been horrible because I'm taking a physics class and a math class. These classes require me to work with a group of people but while other people in my group are solving the problems fast and understanding everything, I'm still trying to figure out how to do the problems. I ask them for help but they ignore me and make up excuses to not help me, and when they do help me, they explain everything super fast and I simply don't get it. I try to ask my teachers but they also struggle. I also struggle with the subjects that should be the easiest, like art. Just a few days ago we had to cut some paper and I simply couldn't do it. My teacher told me that it is ridiculous how I seem to have never learned to use scissors properly. I ended up getting my project done with her help, while the rest of my peers did the project on their own. It is embarassing. The only subject I'm really good at is English. I like to read, write, analyze stuff, etc. I'm very good at writing essays and I've even been told that I seem to have the gift of literature. This, however, doesn't seem to impress people. I've noticed that the people that are the most sucessful are the ones that are good at math and science. I don't even have a good career because of this same reason, because I seem to suck at everything I do. I tried to become a writer, I was told my stories were boring. I tried to become an actress, I got rejected for not being able to socialize the way I should. I tried to become a nurse, they told me I couldn't because of how low my math and science results are. Now I'm studying to become an elementary school teacher, the lowest paid career. I like it but I do wish I was good enough to study another career that I like. I've also been told that I'm so "unattractive" that the only thing I'm able to do is either become a librarian or a teacher. I was so worried about struggling in everything I do that I even took some professional IQ tests and they all came back as me having an "Above average" IQ. Yet, I can't figure out why I struggle so much with the things I do.
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And its already been noted by the weather service as heat advisory today thru Wed here.I have a rack of St. Louis Cut Pork Ribs. I will use a charcoal snake method of two rows on bottom shingled around about 3/4 of way on outside of the grill. Then on top of those I will shingle a single layer of briquetted same around 3/4 of grill. Adding some chunks of wood every 3-4 inches around the grill.I...
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Hope the dog days of summer aren't getting you down!
In college, learning is your responsibility. Start homework early, do extra problems, work it until you understand it, and then work it some more. For a concept that you're struggling with...doing 10-20 times more problems than were assigned...is just what you have to do.
There are old textbooks that can be bought for pennies on the dollar, online problem sets, and your school probably has books in the library. Rotate between them and see which helps the most.
college. Needed a tutor to just halfway understand it.
Maybe you have a learning disability or just need to
learn differently than most people. Can you talk to a
therapist or a counselor at your school. It might be
helpful.
One of the most difficult things in learning number word problems is processing the equation format from word format for a lot of people. I made it all the way to calculus before I asked to be removed from the program my last semester as I was struggling to maintain a "c" average.
I made it through chemistry in high school with two tutors, an understanding chemistry teacher, and in college, one of those same tutors was my partner so we both passed, The things I did well I shared with my partner and the things they did well, they shared with me.
Find confidence in your process. You are smarter than you realize. Remember this statement every time you hear a negative comment: just because they say it does NOT make it your problem. It is their problem. Respond in a positive way for your well-being.
Also not being able to process the series of information sharing to use scissors in a classroom is far more common than people realize. I learned recently that it's often from a learning processing disability and can be managed with a treatment program.
What you can do is look for ways that interest you in learning how to use scissors in a "busy" situation...it's often the overload of information coming at you while you are trying to concentrate that breaks the ability to follow your task in what is a "time-related" standard.
Best wishes!
Whatever our gifts and/or handicaps, finding our place in life can be a brutal process. Don't give up, I_will. I hope you'll feel free and safe venting and/or sorting through the confusions and contusions of that process here. Long, rambling posts allowed.