I am in my first year of college and have really bad social anxiety (just anxiety in general really). I feel depressed and tired all the time and have no energy, however much sleep I get. And even though I study, do all my homework (..just about) and try and focus and listen in lessons nothing is sinking in and my grades are pretty average- but that is with help and the internet and using my notes. When we have a test I usually do pretty poorly and i'm barely scraping a pass. I've talked to my parents about it on many occasions- and I recently got a blood test for hyperthyroidism and anemia but results came back fine. I am apparently physically fit but don't feel like I am. Is it mental? I have no idea what to do
Anxiety making it impossible to concentrate in college? what do I do?
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my parents seem a bit worried but aren't thinking about doctors or the actual possibility of me having a problem, even though my anxiety has stopped me from doing a lot in life. Right now i'm trying to focus on college but it it's getting increasingly difficult and exams are in May.
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Stop for a moment and try to spend some time in silence and your anxiety will disappear like mist in the morning sun. Do you know what anxiety is? It is our small fears and worries that get intertwined and finally burst as a volcano of anxiety. We get panic attacks. But this is not real, it is imaginary. What is the cause of this anxiety? It is ignorance. We are ignorant about simple things, the reality, that we bring nothing with us and take nothing with us, that life is a temporary journey on earth, that death is certain. We are forced to succeed, to make money, to become the best, but this is not what we must do. We must stop and take the real test to realize who we are. We are not this body that suffers. We are not this mind that is anxious. We are the Divine Soul. The moment your realize you are the Divine Soul, you will be free from all anxiety, all misery and suffering. You will live a life of peace and bliss.