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I think I am subconsciously ruining my life.

All of my inaction in life are caused by something in my head. The result is that I got kicked out of college again. I used to be a master at all-nighter and pull some sort of magic rabbit and end up getting an A. However in the last 2 years I have not been able to have a single all-nighter and ended up failing my finals. For example I know I have 3 finals in less then 9 hours so I would start reading the text book ( no notes since i skipped nearly all of my classes by staying in bed) and within 3 minutes I would get distracted and start fantasizing about something i saw on tv or start actually watching an 2 hour movie. Given that, I would have 7 hours left and still nothing done. Instead of getting to work, I would watch another movie in a row and so on until its actually half hour into the first final. I have been habitually avoiding real work and responsibilities by watching shows and dreaming about them. So basically I do not what is compelling me to purposely ignore my work and things to be done to be occupied by useless crap on tv. I say useless because its all boring and certainly I do not find any pleasure in life because how could I, I never get to do anything since I am cooped up in my apartment for like months with my tv shows.

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~Rbecka~ offline Verified User (2 months, 3 weeks) Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (11 minutes after post)

you’re having some burn out honey. I’ve had the same problems in school. One thing you can do is start volunteering on the weekends - just get out and do something positive in the world. Hook up with some other students and get a study group going and maybe look into some counseling. You may need to look at what you are doing and where you are headed and do some soul searching to see if that’s really what you want to do

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happymike40 offline Verified User (12 months) Long Term User Shouts: 8 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (21 minutes after post)

I had to drop out many years ago because of burnout. It’s not a simple thing.
My best guess at any potentially useful advice I could give you is to really figure out what you want to learn the most and start reading layman’s books on the subject. That helped me a lot. Upper division and graduate material can be very technical if you aren’t ready for it. But you can know from simple conceptual books what those in the know are driving at generally, and I believe that it might keep you in the ballgame whether or not you eventually take some time off. Good luck!

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