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  • February 16, 2016 at 10:34 am #96190
    Daniel C.
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    Hello all,
    (Not entirely sure if this is the correct sub-forum to be going to, but oh well) I seem to have an issue with school work. (Ah, yes, glorious, glorious homework) Here’s my issue.

    I can never seem to ever push myself to do any of it without someone having to tell me to. (Namely my parents. Trust me, it’s embarassing for a 10th grader) I don’t know what, but I never seem to be able to get up and do it. This leads to my parents becoming annoyed, which means I go into a depressed slump, which means I don’t want to do anything. Yeah, you get the idea. I don’t know if it’s just that I’m lazy, or if it’s due to my GAD, or the amount of homework I recive (It takes me between 3-6 hours to finish it all). It doesn’t help that I get distracted super easily. (This may be because I want to talk with people online who I have known for a while. I tend to converse with people online more than in person because I never really get out of the house. You can see where this endless cycle is going.)

    Seriously, you people are the greatest, and thank you.

    February 16, 2016 at 12:52 pm #96202
    Wanderer
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    Hi Daniel,

    Motivation is hard to come by, especially when you’re young. Do you have goals? What do you want to do after school, and what can you be doing now to help you get there?

    I recommend a newsletter called “Marc and Angel Hack Life.” I am going through a hard time in my life, lots of change, and their newsletters help me to stay motivated, positive and focused. Good luck to you.

    February 16, 2016 at 2:03 pm #96215
    Anonymous
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    Dear Daniel C:

    Homework for you is very unpleasant so naturally, you are not motivated to do something unpleasant and so often…and 3-6 hours per homework assignment. Communicating online is pleasant, so … naturally you prefer that. And your parents getting annoyed with you is unpleasant..

    Just like any living thing, any organism, we move toward what is pleasurable and away from what is unpleasant, distressing and painful. This is not only human nature, but animal nature.

    I hope you can communicate to your parents that their annoyance is unhelpful to you and acts against their own interest to motivate you to do homework. It may work for a short while but on the long run, day in and day out, it works against your efficiency as a student.

    Then if you are diagnosed with GAD, perhaps you can use that diagnosis to convince the principal to direct teachers to lighten your homework load.

    Next, be okay with taking a break when doing homework, ten minutes or so every thirty minutes or an hour and go online. Then back to homework. Breathe deeply every once in a while. Have your parents bring you hot tea in the winter or a cold drink in the summer as you work. Make it less painful and more pleasurable (work with the withdrawing from pain/ reaching out to pleasure principle of nature).

    anita

    February 16, 2016 at 6:36 pm #96239
    Daniel C.
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    Yeah, I might be getting some drugs to treat the GAD, so that might help.

    I have an issue with just getting refocused. I have tried the Pomodoro method, with limited success. It doesn’t help that I have issues writing english papers.

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