I have my final exam in 3 days. I still have 15 lectures/half a course's worth of content to get through but I can't do anything. Ever since I messed up my last exam I'm scared of studying. If I start I stop a few minutes in because it feels painful remembering the last exam and knowing how much I still have left to go through.
I'm constantly distracting myself in order to not feel anything. It's been 2 days without studying at all now when I was studying 4-5h a day before the last exam. I don't know how to fucking start studying and keep at it again. I know the steps I have to take but when I do I just stop and go back to distracting myself. Help
Probably terrible advice since it took me down kind of a dark path for a while, but a couple of drinks might help relax you enough to ignore the anxiety.
I only finished my phd thesis by abusing alcohol and pain pills, since sober I found it difficult to work on for reasons similar to what you described.
hmmm sounds like me. But then I failed out of university really quick. Good luck though. Maybe you should have a coffee, remove as many distractions as you can, and then push through. And get off 4chan ffs
I'm pretty much exactly like OP, and I'm wondering if any anons here were like that previously, but overcame it? And if so, could you tell me how you did it? It feels like I'll never stop being a lazy piece of shit, so it would be comforting if somebody could tell me its possible to overcome this