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Nickname_33ff8
Age:
20
I can't bring myself to study and have accumulated major university debts
I'm a fourth-year student. By the end of my third year, I had six academic debts, and now in my fourth year, new courses have already started. The problem is that for several months now, I’ve barely been able to force myself to start doing anything: I open lab assignments or practical exercises, see the workload, and kind of freeze up. I often put off even simple tasks, even though I understand the consequences and feel really anxious about it.
This hasn’t just happened with school— I wanted to start going to the gym, learning English, playing guitar more often, but I also barely start any of it. At the same time, I’m not indifferent to everything else; I hang out with friends, have interests, and want to get back to a normal life and studying like I did in my first or second year.
Because of the debts, I feel intense shame, anxiety, and fear toward my professors and the university. I’m afraid they might expel me. Sometimes it’s even hard to log into an online class or go to campus. My sleep has also been really disrupted.
I don’t know if this is severe procrastination, anxiety, burnout, or something else. I’d like to understand what’s going on with me and how to gradually regain the ability to start tasks.
This hasn’t just happened with school— I wanted to start going to the gym, learning English, playing guitar more often, but I also barely start any of it. At the same time, I’m not indifferent to everything else; I hang out with friends, have interests, and want to get back to a normal life and studying like I did in my first or second year.
Because of the debts, I feel intense shame, anxiety, and fear toward my professors and the university. I’m afraid they might expel me. Sometimes it’s even hard to log into an online class or go to campus. My sleep has also been really disrupted.
I don’t know if this is severe procrastination, anxiety, burnout, or something else. I’d like to understand what’s going on with me and how to gradually regain the ability to start tasks.
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