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I can not concentrate anymore
hi. I am in university and although I procrastinate, usually I am able to get myself into the "studying" or a concentration headspace easily, especially when I have to do something on time. but these two months I have been unable to focus at all, I won't be on my phone but I'll sit and stare around or think or I'll eat and eat instead of studying.
lately, I have been feeling very sleepy throughout the day. at first, I thought it was just the fact that I pulled an all-nighter so my mind-body needed to rest but it is so hard for me to not want to sleep when the clock hits 4pm.
my exams have started an I can not bring myself to study or do anything like clean my table or pick up my shoes. I used to pray and read often but now I don't even want to do that. the feeling that oh I have/want/going to do this has disappeared. forget concentrate i cant even motivate or bring myself to begin a task anymore. what do i do? i know all the excersices my old counsller thought me but i don't want to do them so i end up doing nothing and that frustrates me. i don't want to loose my good gpa.
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I'll start at the end where you mention your past counselor and what they taught you. I do not know what these exercises are for but my best guess is that whatever is going on for two months is part of whatever you have been going through. I will use an example I am familiar with, and talk about how depression affects a person. The literal word 'depressed' means lowered as in low on fluids, low on oil in a car. With oil, a car will burn its engine out. Without feel good hormones, a person will not be able to handle stress or function well. Most people have some sort of stress from time to time in life, and yours would be studying, tests and keeping up your GPA. The feel good hormones in your brain are created by your body to help you deal with stress. When a person has used up all their feel good hormones and not done anything that would help replenish it, that person experiences depression or some form of it. There are a few people who have the inability to make their own feel good hormones so they must take man made prescription of those hormones. Unfortunately, a great amount of Drs. still prescribe these meds to people who are able to create their own but aren't doing the easy things to build up their reserves again.
After all this, you probably wonder why I went on this tangent, well it's because I know counselors will give out a list of exercises to do to rebuild those reserves. Its easy stuff like listening to the melody of a song over and over where the sound just makes your heart feel lighter like its about to float out of your chest. For me, the tune would be 'Clocks' by Coldplay. Not the words, just the melody. Another help is adding singing and dancing to favorite songs. See, this isn't hard work. Another is movement of some sort, the dancing is one, walking running, exercise, and skipping. I am grandma age and one time I was having a day where the stress was getting to me, I realized I needed to do something to raise those hornomes. So I did some skipping. For one thing, I felt so silly at my age doing this and just laughed like a kid, wondering what people might think if they saw this. And it worked. You don't have to wait long to feel better, I feel it right away. Not just me, but a daughter whose boyfriend dumped her, needed help, didn't listen to me. Went for her one free visit thru her job and so the counselor gave her the same list I am giving you. Theres more, like hugs but not a side hug, real bear hug lasting a few seconds longer than that stage at which you start to feel uncomfortable. And that is when to keep going, not stop. You can't give a hug without getting one in return so give them to family, friends and you might have to explain why your hug is longer than they expected. Another thing mentioned is meditation. I have found some good Christian teachings on line and so am getting back to all that and for myself realize praying is very important but I am also trying to spend more time with God. So the praying you do not do, GOD will understand why you are having trouble. He knows before we say anything. So try praying, even something really short, like 'God, you know what i am dealing with, please help me. There is something wrong and I don't know what and it will affect my schooling and grades. Thanks for your help." If there is no change with prayer, I don't know what your faith is, or what you believe but just address your prayers to the 'true God" and it will likely happen unless there is something you are doing that blocks it. Otherwise, if you'd rather not seek spiritual help, I would highly recommend going back to your counselor.
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