I'll also add test anxiety. I think that's also something you're struggling with.
When you're making your schedule/plan, include the below self help advice.
It's a bit tricky, I don't know how tight your deadlines are, but in general I tell people to be kind to themselves. The harder you are on yourself, the less likely it is you'll be able to stick to it long term. It really is a matter of slowly building up your habits.
As you can tell, there are a lot of moving components, but fortunately there's also a lot of overlap in the self help advice. Especially if you timeline to your finals is short, I'd suggest you primarily focus on those first (because they are most likely to have the most effect in the short term).
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Symptoms of ADHD include not being able to keep focus, hyperactivity and impulsivity (you do things without thinking them through).
ADHD can be a gift and a curse. You can't get one without the other. You are like a racecar, with bicycle brakes. You can go really fast, but you can't stop. And that is a big downside. However... Put good brakes on that car and suddenly you are able to go really fast without any problems. And there aren't too many people that can do that.
Once you do master the ability to focus, you'll find that you'll be able to do it better than average (though it might take a few years to get there). And you're more alert and creative than most people.
Today's society isn't nearly as suited for you as it was in the past, to me (as a layman with moderate ADHD) it's obvious ADHD isn't a disorder, yeah, today it is, but if you're a hunter gatherer there really aren't a lot of downsides to being easily distracted and all the upsides work in your favor.
I think you owe it to yourself to really start working on this. Do your best to make the most out of this gift and curse that nature gave you. It's one of your more defining features.
Since it is possible that you have ADD/ADHD, here's what you should do:
Here are a number of things you can do to address your ADHD symptoms:
Sleep: There is a complex relationship between sleep and ADHD.
Exercise: Exercising reduces ADHD symptoms.
Meditate: Mindfulness Skills Useful in Addressing ADHD - Mindfulness and ADHD. Your attention is like a muscle. The more you train it, the better the control you have over it. Mindfulness training will help you gain better control over your mind. It doesn't take much effort, just 15 to 20 minutes a day of doing nothing but focus your attention is enough. As you become better at focusing your attention, it will become easier to force yourself to stop having negative thoughts, which will break the negative reinforcement cycle. Go to /r/Mediation if you have questions.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids supplements: might work. There is some research that says it does (but of course also some research that says it does not). You can either buy supplements or eat more fish.
(cont.)
Here's a little bit more, specifically regarding test anxiety:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
diy#In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I am just so anxious because of this entrance exam, and I feel lost because I can't seem to find any "tutorials" that focus on college entrance portfolios.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
mild... I'll just give it then, but it might be not all of it applies to you.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
that might also be test anxiety, by the way. Maybe give the below a read, see if that helps.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
>I feel a bit better knowing my current study strategy is pretty solid, just lack of sleep and recognizing test-anxiety are my big hurdles.
Alright. So I'll add test anxiety advice and sleep advice primarily and then some about ADHD at the bottom.
I think that addresses all of the issues you're currently facing. Maybe set a reminder and then come back in a few days and read all of it again, because it's a lot to take in all at once.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here's how to improve your sleep:
Set repeating alarms for when it's your bed time, so you don't go to bed too late (latest android OS has this feature built in). If you've tried this, but you end up not obeying the alarms you set yourself, let me know, because then you're dealing with a different issue and you'll get different advice.
If you consume caffeine, either in coffee, tea or soft drinks, stop drinking four hours before you go to bed.
When it comes to sleep, there is a complex relationship between sleep and depression.
This can create a negative feedback loop. Sleep problems can cause depression and depression in turn, can cause sleep problems. To avoid that, it's important you try and get your sleep. If you think you might already be depressed, then here's a simple test that will help you determine if that's possibly true (you get the answer directly, takes less than 2 minutes. You can skip the demographic part). Answer how you've felt in the last week. And let me know if you've scored over 10 and then I'll give you advice for that as well.
Back to sleeping: When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 7 hours at most per night (a little more if you are under 18). If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows.
If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer.
If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
There is evidence that suggests that blue light from screens before bed time can impact your ability to fall sleep. Here are several more resources about this phenomenon. To counter this, there are apps for computers and phones that will change the colors of your screen depending on the time of day. A commonly used free program that does this is f.lux.
Both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise). and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices. One thing I sometimes use myself is the rain channel on youtube, with over ear headphones and then relatively loud. It just knocks me out in a matter of minutes.
One thing I noticed myself, is that sometimes I fall asleep, but I think I'm not sleeping. If you drift in and out of sleep, you won't always notice. So you think you've been awake the whole time, but meanwhile you slept for 30 or 40 minutes and then woke up again and sometimes this happens repeatedly. In the end you think you were awake the whole time, but you weren't (counting helps with noticing this, because you will forget the numbers in between sleeping shortly and waking up, so if you keep messing up the counting, that's a sign you did sleep, but didn't notice).
Also consider a weighted blanket, because they are known to provide several positive effects
(cont.)
> Professor for social problems class said he would provide the blue books for the exam what does this mean?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Idk what kind advice this sub is for but here’s my thing , I just wanna stop procrastinating as I’m here typing on my phone I’m thinking of ways of skipping my test because I was too lazy and kept delaying my studying,any advice on how to break this habit?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> my school's taking a nicotine test on monday. is there a way to cheat the test or something?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Best way to cure low potassium(blood test results) without medication?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> This might sound silly but every time I take a test I get very nervous.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Hi I have a uni/collage test in about 6 hours and that I'm currently studying for but I have test anxiety and have had a bad headache for the past 4 hours and I feel really sick,and it progressive gets worse so should i just reschedule it/ have it at a later date with a medical certificate.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> How do i make a friend feel better, they’re stressed about their upcoming test
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> What’s the best way to study for a written test?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I have severe test anxiety.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
> I have my GRE exam in a week and I'm stressing out badly, any last minute tips, suggestions for the exam?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I was wondering if anyone could give some advice with driving test nerves?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I'm stressed about an important exam. Do you have any advice?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Also here's some more specific advice:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
I actually have a few resources specifically for test anxiety:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> •good nights sleep the day before •staying home from school (anxiety trigger) • eating 2 meals before my test •wearing something comfy that I feel confident in •essential oil ( lavender, eucalyptus) •distractions so I don't obsess What else can I do to reduce my anxiety for my test?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I have an online physics exam this coming Friday on zoom. I've asked a friend of mine to help me with it and am thinking of connecting an external monitor and a keyboard for him to help me with my test. Will the teacher find out about external peripherals that are connected?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Umm guys I need some advice for preparing for my board exams which are happening next week and me being the lazy person I am, I have not studied yet. So I want to know the fastest way to prepare for them.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Getting stressed about final exams. Advice?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I would like to say that I have test anxiety, maybe I was having a bad day, I got low sleep, I didn't study etc.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Straight-A student here, 15M. Friends keep asking me to help them with homework or exams, and yet they still call me a nerd (barely studying yet managing to get excellent grades). I'm feeling very uncomfortable because of that and they know it. What should I do?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Straight-A student here, 15yo. Friends keep asking me to help them with homework or exams, and yet they still call me a nerd (barely studying yet managing to get excellent grades). I'm feeling very uncomfortable and irritated because of that and they know it. What should I do?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I have horrible test anxiety. I know all the material prior to the test and can solve all the problems in class, and I know what I got wrong after the test, but during the test I just blank out and I don’t know why.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I need a way to trick a covid test (pcr) Into giving me a positive result. Please suggest me ways. I need to get a positive test result not a negative one
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that cause the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from getting used to it. So avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain new, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Even worse, avoidance will generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
It might also just be test anxiety (but people with general anxiety issues often have test anxiety as well).
Anyway, I also have specific advice for test anxiety:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Sure. I've got some more specific advice for test anxiety as well, I'll give you that here:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Driving anxiety is behavior that is learned, so it can be unlearned.
Causes of driving anxiety are:
Things you can do to overcome driving anxiety:
Online resources:
Youtube:
Best books on this topic:
If you are anxious in general and not just driving, let me know and I'll give you more in depth information on how to address that. Here's a 2 minute test you can use to determine this as well (so this should be answered in general not just regarding driving). If you score over 23, it's worth investing more time to resolve this issue.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Just keep in mind that the number of psychology bachelor students outnumbers the number of masters seats by a lot. It's the only profession that is like that, beside music.
Last time I checked you need ALL As and extracurricular activities (basically: another psychologist that lets you intern) in order to get in to the program.
And everyone knows that. So people that show up with a psychology bachelors degree often aren't valued highly in the work force and they end up in retail.
You're going to try gamble. Someone with anxiety issues, probably shouldn't be gambling with their future. Bad for your anxiety.
If you want to do it anyway, do it. But be aware that you're going to have to work extremely, extremely hard for this dream to become true. The world is going to fight you.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Here's a step by step guide on how to pick your career. It probably takes about an hour to complete.
These subreddits have people that are willing to help you with career guidance:
To maximize your odds, the best time to submit on Reddit is early in the morning EST and you can post on both subreddits at once (just make sure you read the sidebar on each subreddit, because they each have slightly different rules).
If you are thinking of going into IT, you can ask here: /r/cscareerquestions
Youtube videos:
Before you decide, make sure it's a job that:
These are acceptable choices if your parents are paying for your degree, but not if you are financing it with student debt, because it will be hard to pay of these debts later, when you're working at Starbucks.
List of college majors with the highest unemployment rates
If you aren't good with dealing with anxiety and stress, then avoid these 20 jobs and instead consider one of the least stressful jobs
If you want to know how much a certain profession pays in your specific area, go to Glassdoor. You will have to make a free account, but then you can browse salaries for free.
There is a magic number to aim for. Studies have been done that suggest there is a number at which people are most happy. This number is different depending on your location. For US, go here and scroll down to "The $75k Happiness Benchmark" table.
Look at what someone with around 8 years experiences makes in your location in your field of interest, then compare it to the table and you'll know roughly how happy it'll make you all other things being equal (they aren't but it's all you have to go on).
(cont.)
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
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Crush Your Test Anxiety | - | - | 4.6/5.0 |
Stop Test Anxiety: Test Taking Strategies that Us… | - | - | 4.0/5.0 |
NOW Supplements, Melatonin 5 mg, Free Radical Sca… | - | - | 4.5/5.0 |
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I actually have some test anxiety specific advice as well:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Any tips on handling test anxiety?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Item | Current | Lowest | Reviews |
---|---|---|---|
Crush Your Test Anxiety | - | - | 4.6/5.0 |
Stop Test Anxiety: Test Taking Strategies that Us… | - | - | 4.0/5.0 |
NOW Supplements, Melatonin 5 mg, Free Radical Sca… | - | - | 4.5/5.0 |
^Item Info | Bot Info | Trigger
Item | Current | Lowest | Reviews |
---|---|---|---|
Crush Your Test Anxiety | - | - | 4.6/5.0 |
Stop Test Anxiety: Test Taking Strategies that Us… | - | - | 4.0/5.0 |
NOW Supplements, Melatonin 5 mg, Free Radical Sca… | - | - | 4.5/5.0 |
^Item Info | Bot Info | Trigger
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I have severe test anxiety.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Take the self-test: Practising self-test and evaluating your performance can help you manage exam fear.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. Then both Alexa and Google Home can also play a range of sleep sounds if you ask them (rain or other white noise) and there are also free apps for both Android and Apple devices.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
We have to tell you to go see a doctor. That said, assuming you're overall healthy, it's almost certainly anxiety related.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Here's a 2 minute test you can take, that will test you for anxiety. It let's you know roughly where you rank in severity (if it comes back relatively low, it might be social anxiety, for example).
Here are a few things that you can do to help you with general anxiety. It comes down to meditation, breathing exercises and using phone apps to reduce your anxiety.
You can double check if it is indeed general anxiety here: 11 Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders
If you feel anxious right now, open this image in a new tab and start breathing in and out in the rhythm of the image.
There are a large number of books that are aimed specifically at helping you, I've selected the most popular ones for you:
If you currently consume a lot of caffeine (in coffee or soft drinks), stop that. Caffeine is known to cause anxiety
For all of the below advice, use technology to your advantage. Take your phone and set repeating alarm clock reminders, with labels of what to do. Train yourself to either snooze or reschedule the reminders if you can't take action right away, but never to ignore them. The intention is to condition yourself, to build habits, so you will start healing yourself without having to think about it.
It would surprise you if you knew how little time this takes me. Anyway, I'll add self esteem and then also a few more specific resources for test anxiety.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Here's how to improve your self esteem:
If you are not sure if you really have self esteem issues, then here's a page of 10 warning signs that you have low self esteem. Read it and you can confirm yourself if the below advice applies to you or not.
self-esteem is the overall sense or feeling you have about your own self-worth or self-value.
Causes of Low Self-Esteem:
Here is a short overview of how to improve your self esteem:
Additional self esteem improvement tips:
Sleep: How Sleep Impacts Your Self-Esteem, a second source: How to Boost Your Self-esteem by Sleeping More.
Exercise: Self Esteem and exercise, a second source: How Does Exercise Affect Your Self-Esteem?
There exist a large amount of self help articles out there, but many will try to sell you their self help books. Here are a few that don't do that:
Here is some information on what causes self esteem issues, in case you're wondering how you ended up with it.
The most popular videos on improving your self esteem:
These are the most popular books to improve your self esteem:
Finally, there are two subreddits that you can join and where you can ask specific questions to people that have faced the same problems you are facing today:
Low self esteem often causes depression. So it would be a good idea to rule that out as well. Here's a simple test that will help you determine if that's has happened to you (you get the answer directly and it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to take). Answer how you've felt in the last week. Let me know if you scored over 30 on this test and I'll give you advice on how to combat your depression as well.
Self esteem problems can cause social anxiety issues.
Here's a two minute test for <em>social</em> anxiety to check if you have social anxiety issues and not something else (results will be visible right away). Let me know if you scored over 60.
You have taken the first step. Asking for advice on what to do next. Now you have to take your own mental health seriously and take the next step. You, just like everyone else are worth investing effort into. If you are not going to do it, neither will anyone else. So now keep walking. Let me know if you have any questions regarding any of the above advice.
If you can't improve your self esteem after a few months, consider going to a therapist.
Here's some more specific about test anxiety:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
I'd probably go talk to a school counselor if I were you. Here's some more, specifically about test anxiety (that's what you're experiencing) as well as depression.
But I suspect you're really at a point where you need to seek professional help. You can't be crying during tests. That's just not how you're supposed to be living.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Here's a list of symptoms associated with depression. See for yourself if they apply to you or not.
Here are a number of things you can do yourself, to improve your depression symptoms:
For the below advice, take your phone and set repeating alarm clock reminders, with labels of what to do. Train yourself to either snooze or reschedule the reminders if you can't take action right away, but never to ignore them. The intention is to condition yourself, to build habits, so you will start healing yourself without having to think about it.
Sleep: There is a complex relationship between sleep and depression.
Go outside: If you haven't been outside much lately, you might just need some sunlight. 15 minutes two to three times a week is enough. This will fix serotonin levels as well as vitamin D deficiencies.
Meditate: Depressions can be significantly reduced by meditating. The best types Of Meditations For Depression Relief.
Exercise: The effect of exercise on depressions
Music: The right music can improve your mood. The genre is not important as long as it is: "Upbeat, rhytmic and energetic". What this means differs from person to person, depending on their music taste. I have a special playlist for this. One way to measure the effectiveness, of the songs is your ability to listen to it over and over (if you can listen to it hundreds of times it likely has the highest positive effect on your mood). The effect can be amplified by using headphones and playing it LOUD and can further be enhanced by closing your eyes (doi:10.1177/0305735617734627, doi:10.1093/jmt/50.3.198 and doi:10.1177/0305735617751050).
You are not your depression: For some people (often those that have been depressed for a long time), their depression has become a part of who they are and they assume a victim role. But that is a big problem, you have to will yourself into someone that sees themselves as a person that is actively fighting their disease, that no longer identifies with it, or else you will unconsciously obstruct your own healing process. As Eckhart Tolle expressed it in A New Earth:
> A very common role is the one of victim, and the form of attention it seeks is sympathy or pity or others' interest in my problems, "me and my story." Seeing oneself as a victim is an element in many egoic patterns, such as complaining, being offended, outraged, and so on. Of course, once I am identified with a story in which I assigned myself the role of victim, I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its "problems" because they are part of its identity.
Jordan Peterson: How To Deal With Depression (50 minutes). Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist, that's specialized in mythology. This is a compilation focusing specifically on depression.
Practice gratitude: Take 5 minutes every day to practice gratitude.
Volunteer: Study after study shows that helping others without expecting anything in return will lessen depression and has other health benefits. Let me know if you need some ideas.
Highest rated books:
Phone Apps: Two popular free apps used to help fight depressions, are Wysa and MoodTools. These will track your mood, give you advice, even listen to your problems. The most popular meditation app is: Calm - Meditate, Sleep, Relax
There are several subreddits, where you can post additional questions:
Better than most of my grades. I only graduated because one of my teachers was a good christian and waived my overall 4 for math. The funny part? It was only a vocational degree, not even college level. The really funny part? It turned out I'm actually really good at life and I'm a successful millionaire.
Turns out school has very little to do with real life.
Still though, stop being scared. Here's some more specifically on test anxiety. Make sure you figure this out before your next test:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Most watched videos on test anxiety:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Here's some more, this time specifically for test anxiety
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
I'll add some test anxiety specific advice.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
diy#In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> Does anyone have any advice for dealing with exam anxiety, particularly for practical exams?
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
diy#In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I have test anxiety and didn't do well because of it on a test that I prepared to (For long days) and in a subject that I LOVE.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
diy#In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I have test anxiety and didn't do well because of it on a test that I prepared to (For long days) and in a subject that I LOVE.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
diy#In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
> I have test anxiety and for the longest time, I thought I wouldn’t get it.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
diy#In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
diy#In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
That pressure caused test anxiety/anxiety. You can lower that with the below techniques.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Here are a few things that you can do to help you with general anxiety. It comes down to meditation, breathing exercises and using phone apps to reduce your anxiety.
You can double check if it is indeed general anxiety here: 11 Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders
If you feel anxious right now, open this image in a new tab and start breathing in and out in the rhythm of the image.
There are a large number of books that are aimed specifically at helping you, I've selected the most popular ones for you:
If you currently consume a lot of caffeine (in coffee or soft drinks), stop that. Caffeine is known to cause anxiety
If your anxiety is situational and not too extreme, you can try to address it through exposure therapy. You slowly carefully expose yourself to situations that you know give you fear. Here are two easy to follow guides on that. The one regarding spiders, is a blue print. You can replace spider with anything. Fear of driving. Fear of using a phone.
For all of the below advice, use technology to your advantage. Take your phone and set repeating alarm clock reminders, with labels of what to do. Train yourself to either snooze or reschedule the reminders if you can't take action right away, but never to ignore them. The intention is to condition yourself, to build habits, so you will start healing yourself without having to think about it.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
diy#In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
diy#In general, the best and quickest way to deal with anxiety, is to face your fear if possible.
If you always avoid situations that scare you, you might stop doing things you want or need to do. You won't be able to test out whether the situation is always as bad as you expect, so you miss the chance to work out how to manage your fears and reduce your anxiety. Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.
The experience of anxiety involves nervous system arousal. If your nervous system is not aroused, you cannot experience anxiety. Understandably, but unfortunately, most people attempt to cope with feelings of anxiety by avoiding situations or objects that elicit the feelings. Avoidance, however, prevents your nervous system from habituating. Therefore, avoidance guarantees that the feared object or situation will remain novel, and hence arousing, and hence anxiety provoking. Moreover, avoidance tends to generalize over time. If you avoid the elevator at work, you will soon begin to avoid all elevators, and then all buildings that house elevators. Soon enough, you'll be living in a prison of avoidance.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
I don't know why you would "fear" taking a test you can just do over and over until you pass.
You should fear a tiger. Or a man with a gun. But if you start fearing a piece of paper, then you probably should start working on your anxiety issues.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Here's a couple more resources, these are specifically for what is called "test anxiety" (I suspect you also suffer from that)
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough.
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study:
Test anxiety is a combination of physical over-arousal and tension, along with worry, dread, fear of failure, and catastrophizing, that happens before or during test situations.
The feelings of forgetfulness, or drawing a "blank" are caused by interference from the the anxiety.
Online resources:
Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
Causes and how to reduce test anxiety
Books that will help you resolve this issue:
Things you should do to improve your test anxiety symptoms:
Develop good test-taking skills: Read the directions carefully, answer questions you know first and then return to the more difficult ones. Outline essays before you begin to write.
Prepare properly: Lack of preparation is one of the causes of test anxiety. Properly prepare for your test and it will lower your anxiety before and during tests.
Sleep: Make sure you sleep enough. When you have days where you don't have to do anything, don't oversleep, set an alarm clock. You really don't need more than 8 hours at most per night. If you can't fall sleep, try taking melatonin one hour before going to bed. It's cheap, OTC and is scientifically proven to help regulate your sleep pattern. Also, rule out sleep apnea. Up to 6% of people have this, but not everyone knows. If you find yourself often awake at night, start counting. Don't grab your phone, don't look at the clock, don't do anything interesting. We're trying to bore you to sleep, not keep you entertained - sometimes it might feel like you've done it for hours and hours, but often it's really not all that long. Anytime your mind wanders away from the numbers and starts thinking, start over at 1. count at the speed of either your heartbeat or your breathing, whatever you prefer. If that still doesn't work and you really want to sleep, buy a dodow($60) and/or a white noise generator ($20).
Exercise: Test anxiety can be addressed with exercise. If you have access to a gym, then start lifting weights. If you don't have access to a gym (or you don't like lifting), start running. If you can't run, then start walking. Just start small. 10 minutes three times a week is fine. You don't have to run fast, just run and then slowly build it up over time. Exercising does several things: It releases endorphins, it takes your mind of your negative thoughts and it will improve your overall health.
Here ends the test anxiety advice. If all you want to do is fix that, then you know what to do now.
If your test anxiety is caused by a lack of preparation, due to motivational issues, let me know and I'll give you information on how to improve your motivation.
There are a few mental health disorders that often have test anxiety as one of their symptoms. If you are interested, you can take the below tests and let me know if you score high and then I will give you additional advice on how to address these issues:
Here are two subreddits where you can ask more detailed questions, as well as ask for advice on how to study: