Anybody out there have good tips on how to de-stress, lower anxiety and just get yourself organized? I know I complain a lot but in all honesty, this is the most overwhelmed I have felt since starting in speech pathology. I can feel myself trying to keep afloat but it's not working. I thought this semester would be crazy but doable but i'm not feeling it at all.
Swallowing: doing well so far surprisingly enough.
Neur0: completely failing. ok maybe not that bad- i can update you tuesday when i get my midterm back- my midterm that I had to LITERALLY learn an ENTIRE CSUN semesters worth of information. Does that seem fair? It was the most ridiculous thing I've faced yet. Part of me doesn't care cause of the ridiculousness but I know I can't fail.
Autism: lectures aren't on the book, just soap boxes. No teaching yet professor tells us the midterm is killer and nobody ever passes (but we have 3 group projects to up the grade- but the three group projects are due back to back weeks-impossible to do a complete job)
Clinic: better than my clinic at CSUN but still hard to keep up. Language samples can take a whole day in itself to analyze and have two to do by friday. Therapy for one client going fairly well, the other not so much. Trying to keep up and get the results needed is very overwhelming.
Stuff jsut keeps getting piled on top of each other. i"m only typing this up right now because i am so desperate for ideas. Anyone have any ideas on how to stay on top of stuff?
I had posted a cry for help on facebook and many people offered ideas to de-stress, many reminding me to go to God for help. I jsut can't get myself to trust right now- that's how bad it is. I want to so bad because I know he's out there but I'm feeling so abandoned right now. Ugh. 2 more years, will I make it?
Our wedding day 12-23-04
My husband and I
Together for almost a decade, married for 5
About Me
- liz oelker
- I love my family and friends and I am thankful for all the blessings God has presented to us.
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All I can say (after years of figuring this out) is, if you pursued God as much as you pursue and make sure all your notebooks are perfect for your "stars", you might find that He has never left you. He loves you and cares for you so much and even when you push Him aside for other things, He is still with you. And He wants you to pursue Him so He can help you, calm you, strengthen you...
Amen and Amen to what your Mama said.
while it would be great to actually learn important and interesting things in college, it's unfortunately more about learning how to perservere and survive under stress and working with all different people. You can succeed and are just really hard on yourself. People care about you, but the world is full of bad communicators (no, I didn't learn that from my speech comm degree...but from real life). Push on through, Lizzie, to get that piece of paper that shows how much you've worked, adapted, perservered, and survived. Then, and only then, think about the hardest thing you'll ever do...be a mom. It's amazing, but also amazingly difficult. Enjoy life right now so that when you have your baby you don't look back and think how much you missed by longing for a child. Enjoy the season you are in. Your time will come. And you'll never get these years back.
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