I'm over it and fed up

@tyme, I am going out for dinner today for birthday eve, just trying to get uni done, but taking breaks whenever I feel the need, my attention span is so bad. Do you have plans?

At least you have something planned. @creative_writer .

Do you have much uni work?

@tyme, yeah, I have quite a bit to do, I will see how I go, if I can't finish it all this weekend, I'll try to catch up during the week. Being a full-time student is hard, even if you're only doing 6 units in the year, that's not even 100% of the workload. It also doesn't help my attention span has shrank, I have developed really bad inattention symptoms, maybe it's burn out? I don't think I was like this when I was younger

I'm not sure whether our attention span fluctuates in life @creative_writer . I was okayish as a kid, then it was really bad, then now it's better. It's quite interesting.

I know my mental health affect my memory. I'm much better now. But at the height of my MH, my memory was terrible.

hello @creative_writer

im sorry your having such a rough time at the moment. i can relate to you and some of your stressors.
Uni is hard, ive been studying for a while too. maybe youd like to join our study thread for support? would you like me to tag you to the thread? we all just share advice on studying or just be there for each other when it gets tough. please feel free to join, the more the merrier i guess you could say.


i ca relate to you with the attention span when it comes to studying. it can be hard work sometimes. i try and break it down into smaller sections and try and focus on someone easy then hard then easy so it keeps the progress going and feel more achieveable

i do hope you have a nice dinner out though. i hope its abit more refreshing to how your currently feeling

@tyme, anxiety definitely plays a role, when I am hypervigilant, I feel so overstimulated and even the small tasks feel so hard. Sometimes I find myself just going through motions just to tick off boxes instead of actually enjoying my life. I'm glad your memory is better, it gives me some hope that it is possible things will get easier

Hi @outlander, I don't think we have met, it is nice to meet you 🙂 . I didn't know we had a study thread, I would love to join that. I am trying to break it down and taking breaks whenever I need, I am taking lots of breaks, more than I want, but it's better than doing nothing. Dinner out was good, thinking of going out later today too, been trying to squeeze some uni in today, I was lucky that I woke up early naturally (I had an early night)

its nice to meet you too @creative_writer

i will tag you into the study thread! its really good to be able to connect with others struggling with studies or just connecting with those who do study

getting out and about sounds good too

@outlander, it does help to have other people too. MH makes studying a bit more tricky, particularly if your course is MH related. I had to put the module content for this week on hold for a bit till I catch my breath. I was out for a bit today too, which was good. It wasn’t for too long, only because I have something for uni tom, so trying to save my energy for that too

thats good energy distributing @creative_writer well done