Exam Stress
Exams are next week and the stress is threatening to tear me apart. I have a 4.0 gpa and I *know* that it’s going to go down with this semester’s grades. I’ve been trying to convince myself that I don’t care, but to no avail. All I want to do fast and cut, but I’ve promised myself I wont do either. If I don’t eat, I get really sick from my meds. If I cut, I wind up in the ER because I can’t control it. The urges are distracting me from getting any studying done, and the less studying I do, the stronger the urges get! It’s a vicious cycle. I’ve been a cutter for 6 years - it’s just how I deal with things - but it has to end. I haven’t cut for 4 days now and I’d like to at least make it through exam week without self-harming again. How do you all deal with exams (in a healthy way)?