In 2 months I am returning to uni. Last year I really struggled with my anxiety there due to being surrounded by lots of people. Is there anything I can do to help stop this?
In 2 months I am returning to uni. Last year I really struggled with my anxiety there due to being surrounded by lots of people. Is there anything I can do to help stop this?
There is plenty of help if you are up for some reading:
For the anxiety issues:
From Anxiety to Meltdown - How Individuals on the Autism Spectrum Deal with Anxiety, Experience Meltdowns, Manifest Tantrums, and How You Can Intervene Effectively - Deborah Lipsky (2011)
ISBN 9781849058438
Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety - A Guide to Successful Stress Management - Nick Dubin (2009)
ISBN 9781843108955
Disjointed: Navigating the Diagnosis and Management of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder
ISBN 9781734794915
Self-Regulation and Mindfulness - Over 82 Exercises & Worksheets for Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, & Autism Spectrum Disorder - Varleisha D. Gibbs (2017)
ISBN 9781683730620
For the surviving in uni side:
Developing College Skills in Students With Autism and Asperger's Syndrome - Sarita Freedman (2010)
ISBN 9781843109174
You have given a fairly broad question so I'm giving a broad solution - can you articulate what issues you are having in some more detail so we can give a more targetted response rather than expecting you to read all the books please?
I know cash is tight as a student so you can get the books from research sites such as Library Genesis for free - just make sure you will be using them for research of course...
Hi,
Thank you for the recommendations! I struggle to be around so many people which leads me to isolate myself. However, this then makes me unhappy. I also stress about deadlines and doing the work. Currently the thought of going back to uni is causing me to be very anxious and not sleep properly.
Currently the thought of going back to uni is causing me to be very anxious and not sleep properly.
Are you actively doing anything to learn skills to help with the areas that cause anxiety?
If you don't then this will be something else to get anxious about.
I strongly recommend reading up on it and setting together a schedule to work through your fears, preferrably with the help of a therapist.
Once you start to make progress then you will gain some confidence and it becomes a self reinforcing loop, and knowing it is working will help you sleep too,
So get off your bottom and start now would be my recommendation.
I do think that is unnecessarily harsh.
That wasn't a harsh expression at all, at least not in my experience. It was even softened with polite words and written to encourage the OP to break the inertia abd start empowering themselves.
I was that age once and it is all to easy to allow procrastination to add to the difficulties when it all seems so overwhelming, so sometimes that little extra push said in the way a grandparent might is what it takes to take one little step of tracking down a book.
What they choose to do with it is down to them, but to be frozen in inaction needs our support and gentle prodding (this phrase for example) to begin the journey.
I suffer from anxiety too but I have found effective ways to tackle it and allow me to do things that were unthinkable at university age. I don't think hearing anyone say "here is a solution, just try it" to a 20 year old me would have stopped me asking for help at all.
I do think that is unnecessarily harsh.
That wasn't a harsh expression at all, at least not in my experience. It was even softened with polite words and written to encourage the OP to break the inertia abd start empowering themselves.
I was that age once and it is all to easy to allow procrastination to add to the difficulties when it all seems so overwhelming, so sometimes that little extra push said in the way a grandparent might is what it takes to take one little step of tracking down a book.
What they choose to do with it is down to them, but to be frozen in inaction needs our support and gentle prodding (this phrase for example) to begin the journey.
I suffer from anxiety too but I have found effective ways to tackle it and allow me to do things that were unthinkable at university age. I don't think hearing anyone say "here is a solution, just try it" to a 20 year old me would have stopped me asking for help at all.
