My A-Level HELL- please help

I am struggling immensely with A-Levels at the moment; i cannot stop thoughts of failure going round and round in my head, i cannot stop revising constantly, i feel like nothing is going in, i'm waking myself up with panic attacks, staying up all night with worry, throwing up every morning with anxiety and crying all the time. NOTHING i try puts me to sleep. Therapy has not helped, my medication isn't even making a dent and I feel that i am running out of options. I've tried meditation, distracting myself, talking to my parents, writing down my feelings- you name it, I've tried it 1,000 times for good measure. NOTHING IS WORKING.

What should I do, I'm so desperate?????

Hello What subjects are you doing?Are you in year 12?I find a-levels quite stressful too sometimes,and sometimes I need to take a step back from it all and just try and not stress about it because it won't make things better.Do you know what mistakes are letting you down in a-levels-is it knowing the content,problems with answering the questions,do you struggle with certain topics or is it something else?Identify what your weaknesses are.Remember to take brakes and get good sleep or the information won't go in and your revision will be ineffective.Remember be kind to yourself and look after your wellbeing,that's the most important thing.Maybe take a day off and do something fun and refresh yourself and then go back to revision.Also how are you revising-is your method effective?

Just set yourself small task 30-50 min chunks and then do X of those a day. Once you have done that, then that is a days work. Can be anything from 6-12 imo.

Panic costs you marks, which is a good enough reason not to do it. You can meditate, exercise, socialise to wind down.

Your exam prep should now have moved onto exam papers and you should be doing practice questions.

With books and then eventually without. The latter forces you to recall. If you cant then you know you havent memorised well enough. Timing forces you to understand that you have to do so in exam conditions.


Most people are stressed to very stressed, but it doest help so you just get on with it and do your best. If you fail then you learn from it and just resit. It isnt really hell, they are just tests. keep it in perspective. Exams are hard enough without you making them feel even worse than they are.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/student-stress/

I appreciate your advice, but sometimes it is impossible to just 'get on with it' as I'm physically sick before every exam, unable to eat anything because it won't stay down and so am doing all of my papers on no food and no sleep. There has to be some kind of way to stop this rather than just powering through because I cannot live my life completely debilitated by exams.

Then therapy is really the way forward so you can train your mind to see things in context. The GP can give you beta blockers, but am assuming you have tried medication.

If you are sick, then just be sick. Eat something after that is easy to swallow and will provide energy.

If your anxiety is so bad you cannot eat and sleep, then perhaps you should take a gap year or two to improve your coping mechanisms. CBT and NLP therapy would seem appropriate.

Most people get anxious to very anxious about exams, but they deal with it. Theres something in your coping mechanisms that just get overwhelmed and you are unable to see thing in context. the therapy will help you understand that and give you coping routines to try and talk yourself back down.

https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/get-help/anxiety-information/young-people-and-anxiety/