"Now semester 3 for me starts next Monday and my paper is just as unfinished as it was three weeks ago. I spent over a good half of my break sitting in front of the computer screen crying, unable to write anything legitimate. I have no idea why, perhaps I just lack the confidence, but I kept feeling overwhelmed and would just sit there and cry.... Looking back I probably could have written it three or four times over, and I deeply, deeply, regret not just withdrawing... I did make progress, but it is nowhere near to being a finished paper. There is no way it can be finished by Monday, and at this point I just want it to go away and disappear."
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posted by lovecricket
on Jan 7, 2011 -
37 answers
I need some help finding balance. I've gone through a number of changes in my life lately, and it's been amazing. But the changes have caused my work life to suffer, and I've just taken on a new job, so this is not a good time. Anxiety, exercise, confidence, and a loss of balance all come into play here... I need some help putting it all together.
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posted by anonymous
on Jun 30, 2010 -
10 answers
I'm not talented at anything useful. I'm not passionate about anything specific. And I'm getting older. What now?
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 30, 2010 -
32 answers
I really want to start living my life now, as is, instead of waiting until things are "right" and obsessing about perfection - but I keep falling into this way of thinking - help!
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posted by Chrysalis
on Mar 27, 2010 -
21 answers
I am living a wasted life. Depressed and stuck. I know this question has been asked a million times in a million different ways by a million different people. But I want to ask it myself, and hear what you say to me, because I am at the end of my rope.
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 10, 2009 -
57 answers
What can I do to feel more positive and confident while riding out uncertaintiy in "transitional" phases of my life?
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posted by Chrysalis
on May 25, 2009 -
7 answers
I have to make a hard, life-altering decision that I've been debating on for a year. I am having a hard time doing so due to past issues that resulted from me not thinking through these things first.
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posted by anonymous
on May 16, 2009 -
28 answers
I'm having the same problem as the poster below me "Help me deal with high stakes situations.." (BTW I read all those responses too).
Like her it happens with meetings, people with authority, friends and dating. But, I'm a guy, and the only part I really care about is how it effects friends and dating. The rest I can live with..
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posted by 0217174
on Jan 11, 2009 -
12 answers
Want to have a real college "experience" but limited to community college and a state school in a city I just don't like.
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posted by evanrodge
on Jul 17, 2008 -
17 answers
what has worked for you if you consider yourself overall an anxious person?
i rarely suffer from any severe anxiety symptoms, panic symptoms or find that my anxiety is getting in the way of carrying out my daily activities, but rather it feels as if my general mood is of of rather high anxiety about a great many things and about nothing in particular, and has been so for years now.I come from a long line of worriers. i cant remember the last time i really relaxed in any kind of deep way. almost to the point where i cant even really remember how that felt, the world seems so colored with stress.
I perhaps shouldn't even be using the term anxiety. by and large i do not meet any of the clinical criteria for this as a clinical definition maybe it really is the world we are in right now.
i eat well, get plenty of rest and exercise, meditate. I take no medications. Drink a beer or glass of wine now and then.
What has worked for you if you were once feeling like this?
posted by dougiedd
on Apr 12, 2008 -
24 answers
