Stress overload and pounding heart Posted: 02-12-08 19:54pm
Hello. I am seeking help because I do not
know where else to go. I am 18 years old
right now, and I am a full time college
student majoring in nursing. I also work 2
jobs (about 28 hours per week) as a
nurse's assistant for mentally challenged
and autistic children.
When I was 16 my mother moved away and I
had nowhere to live so since then I have
been living with my boyfriend (who is now
21.) He lives about an hour and a half
away from my college, so each day I drive
an hour and a half to school, go to class
all day, then drive to work and work till
about 9:30 at night and then go home and
do homework for an hour and go to bed.
I am so busy all the time, that I have
lost alot of friends and the only person I
ever really socialize with is my
boyfriend.
The problem is, that I am so stressed out
everyday. From the moment I wake up till
the moment I fall asleep my heart is
pounding, and I am constantly stressing
out about everything.
Especially in my car, since I do so much
driving and I am thinking thinking the
whole time- I get so stressed out that I
often throw up and I cry everyday, at
least once or twice. After a long day of
feeling stressed out, I turn to feeling
just drained, and sad and just cry and cry
until I fall asleep.
I am trying so hard to get somewhere and
make myself something, but I feel so alone
and so stressed out all the time that it
is really staggering me.
Help me please.
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mominashoe
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Posted: 02-18-08 12:29pm
Wow that's a pretty heavy work load. What
you are feeling is normal under your
circumstances. If you were in a better
situation, you would probably not have any
anxiety-related symptoms, so this is a
good thing. Good meaning that you do not
have medically related anxiety.
Just read what you put up there. Who can
do that much and still be sanely human?
Two jobs, full time college, and living
with a boyfriend that is over an hour
away. So that's like having three or four
jobs at the same time. You probably need
the jobs for college and you can't give up
college because that is your future.
Is there any way that you could convince
your boyfriend to move closer or get a
place of your own that is closer? That's
three hours every day that you are
missing....time that could be used for
sleep or for study.
If you don't want to change this
lifestyle, which I'm guessing you don't
because you would have if you really
wanted to, then what I suggest is using
that long drive to your benefit. Use it
as your relaxation time. Your time for
YOU. Get some fun music, buy some
inspirational tapes. Drive with the
windows down and sing at the top of your
lungs.
I'm sorry no one got to this post sooner,
but I do hope that this helps you out a
little. You are so young and have so much
of a load for your age. The best of luck
to you!
