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Exams! How to cope?

dreamergrl29
dreamergrl29
Hi everyone. So, exams are coming up (at least for me). Is there a certain way that you are dealing with the stress?

I have trouble with anxiety, panic attacks, self injury, and an eating disorder, so things can get pretty crazy around this time! I do like to listen to music and read though, so I am trying to do a lot of that. Also working on finding ways (rather unsuccessfully however) to get motivated now so that I don't end up scrambling and cramming to get papers done and study for all the tests.

Anyways...What is your favorite way to de-stress?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Three words: Count the days!

Best of luck with finals... I'm right there with you.
deleted_user
deleted_user
My favorite way to de-stress is to take one night away from all the craziness and go out with my best friend. She's also in college and we live three hours apart since I go to college online at home and she goes to the U of M three hours away. She comes home every other weekend and we make sure to do nothing the Friday that she comes home so we can spend the night out and the one rule is we CANNOT talk about school at all. We just catch up, have fun, and be carefree teenagers. Being as I also have a 7 month old baby boy, it is great way to get free of the stress of two weeks straight of playing with and caring for a baby.
JourneymanProject1
JourneymanProject1
I wish I had a good answer for this, but the truth of the matter is that I have addiction problems that I have not been able to find answers for, so I can't de-stress at all without overdoing it...basically this leaves panic and lashing out at people as the only reactions I have. :(

Hope your finals go okay for you, though.
dreamergrl29
dreamergrl29
Journeyman: I understand where your coming from. I don't have a substance addiction, but I am addicted to my eating disorder and to a various self mutilation types. It is freaking hard not to use them 24/7 with exams around. I wish you luck. Hope things go okay for you--the end of the semester is almost here.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I used to procrastinate studying for finals till the day before/day of. What has worked for me since then if preperation. I find out what I need to know for the exam and break it over the course of several days. So ill spend 2 hours studing one thing and then 2 studying other. I still leave the last day solely for the upcoming exam but by then its just review. Hope that can help!
deleted_user
deleted_user
In my school 100% of your grade is on your final exam and it takes 6 weeks to grade it, so you go on a 2 week break and don't know your grade untill week4 of the next term. The whole time being required to study and do ungraded assignments and oral exams.

I've been doing it for over 2 years now and it still is anxiety. It is more than stress that I had expected. Trust me, I feel your pain with it comes to final exam related anxiety.