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Reply 1

britishseapower

14

In terms of eating disorders, you need professional advice from a doctor or maybe a charity that deals with them issues. I don't think many people on here will be as qualified to give such advice.

In terms of the exams, you just have to change your thinking about them. At the end of the day, it is just questions on a piece of paper covering what you have learnt during the year. As long as you prepare for them, you should have no need to worry whatsoever.

I think everyone gets nervous about exams, I have felt nervous before exams even when I have been totally prepared for them; it's just natural I guess. You just have to utilise that adrenalin and use it to do well on the exams. It's not life or death, if you fail, there is the opporunity to do resits or maybe resit the whole year in extreme circumstances.

Everyone is in the same boat so just take comfort in that.

Reply 2

noisette1

I don't understand why people are prepared to ruin their health over exams. They are not the most important thing that will ever happen to you in your life. Can you not see how disproportionate your anxiety is to a piece of paper with a few questions on it :confused:

Having an eating disorder-now that's something you want to be worried about.

Reply 3

britishseapower

14

well they can be very pressurising, you pay alot of money to go to university and getting the career that you want can be dependent upon your success in exams. Then there is the added weight of wanting to please parents e.t.c. The key to dealing with exams is to turn that pressure into something positive, use it to make you prepared for the exams, weeks, months in advance rather than using it to put you on a downer.

Going into each year at university, you KNOW there is going to be exams at the end of the year (perhaps during the year too) so there is no excuses really for not being prepared. Obviously it happens and it isn't ideal when it does but you have to utilise every spare second that you have to make up for lost ground.

Reply 4

EmptyhollowTree

featheredblack

exams are getting closer and it feels like the walls are closing in. for about a year now iv have worried myself sick about them, yet im so worried i fail to do anything about them. iv developed an eating disorder and have been on and off school for the past few weeks because my immune system is caving in. iv felt soo many times the urge to walk away, go to germany and start a new. i know i havent got long left until all exams are over but im close to giving up. i dont know how to stop the worrying and the constant need to worry that is leading to the detirioration of my heath. there seems no light at the end of the tunnel. is there anyone who could give me a few words on eating disorders, or any advice at all!!

It seems like you are going through a tough time at the moment. What is causing all this worry over the exams?

Like a poster above said, have you considered seeing your doctor about the eating disorder you mentioned?

You say "there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel", is this because you are feeling down about the exams or is it something else?

What I'd suggest for you to do is to talk to someone you trust about how you are feeling. Sometimes it can be helpful just to have a rant instead of bottling it all up like you say you have been doing all year.

If it helps, I used to get myself really worked up over exams and I think everyone has their moments of doubt when they contemplate giving up on them. But it seems to me that you have managed to come this far and all you have now is this last hurdle. What you might find helpful is if you set yourself out a study plan. That way, if you do more than you expected to do one day you will feel better about yourself and feel like you are ahead and if not you know exactly what you have to cover.

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