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anxiety and exams

i just learned i passed a uni course i had difficulty with. i was repeating it, got moved to a different year group because of it. anyway, i was over the moon when i read that i did it. yes i got a passing grade and nothing higher but at that point with how much stress i got because of the exam i was so happy to be done i was jumping around like an idiot. it is insane how fast and how hard my heart was beating when i got the results email and couldn't open it, i sat in one place for at least an hour with shaking hands. i thought i would die. so afterwards i called my mom and told her that i passed it, she knew how anxious i was and my several mental breakdowns after my final exam because i was really worried for it, i was so anxious in the exam room and i forgot half of the stuff, you can imagine how disappointed in myself i was. i felt happy about telling her because i thought she was supportive and understanding after my exam, she said she wouldn't care about the grade. now she told me she's dissatisfied and confused. she told me, and put great emphasis on her point that "i want my anxiety" ???? and that i can just "make it go away" any moment but i "dont want to". what? who else apparently likes not being able to breathe and feeling like they are going into cardiac arrest 10 times a day? looking like a psycho because their whole body is twitching from nerves? i was happy for exactly one moment now im sitting here crying again.
Just sit and work through your emotions, you have been through an intense time... so it would be normal to feel like this.
andyhjtot · 18-21, F
@HootyTheNightOwl thank you. ive calmed down a bit. i realize the post sounds like im whining but if i said everything thats going on it would have been 3 kilometers long
@andyhjtot As for your mother, though... she needs to know that anxiety is an illness that can't be turned off any more than she can change her eye colour to orange.

If someone is deaf and wears hearing aids... that doesn't make them hearing people anymore than learning coping strategies removes your anxiety. It's still there - and there's still times when coping strategies won't work as well as you might like. Sometimes, you have to accept that today is just one of those days when your plans just go arwy and there's nothing that can be done about it.
DunningKruger · 61-69, M
Congratulations. Sometimes, even just a passing grade is an accomplishment. Your mom is not being supportive of you as she should be. Everything will be all right.

 
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