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Getting through college with mental health issues
&I am a mentally-ill student who has struggled with school since high school. Over high school and a year and a half of university, I’ve found this is what works for me.
This is a guide of things you can do for yourself, but I am no mental health professional and I always recommend seeking a professional to help you.
Reminders
You are a good student.
You are not lazy.
Your mental illness and the stress of school just makes things difficult for you, but it isn’t impossible.
You’re allowed to fail and make mistakes - you’re only human. You are more than your illness and you are so much better than you realize.
Take care of yourself. You deserve it. Your mental health is more important than academics. And your mental state won’t last forever.
Deal with your mental illness!
Medication. Medication is an important part of recovery. Don’t be afraid to try medication if your doctor suggests it. Medication will balance your out-of-whack brain chemicals so you can work on taking care of yourself. It’s a trial-and-error process and you will find what works for you after some trials.
Get professional help. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Seek a counselor/therapist who works well with you. There should be a myriad of mental health resources on campus, and if not, check the Internet or your local community.
Journal. Or draw. Or play music. Express yourself creatively to get those emotions out. Friends/family won’t always be available for you, so learn to deal with your emotions by yourself.
Let your professors/TAs know. Hopefully you have some sort of accommodations plan set up with the university, but if not, DO IT. I don’t like to disclose my mental illnesses to them, but I let them know my academic struggles.
Do not fall behind - stay as productive as possible.
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Try to go to class no matter what, no matter how anxious or depressed you feel. Unless you’re so sick that you can barely pay attention in class, try to attend class. You can always leave early if you need to. If class makes you anxious, go anyway to train yourself that you’re safe, you’re okay, and it’s never as bad as it seems. Here are some tips on how to stay calm at school. The mere act of going to class can give you a boost. Try paying attention and be productive. Don’t worry about taking in absolutely everything the prof says. Just take the time to learn. Use relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing (in four seconds, hold four seconds, out eight seconds), tense and release your muscles, count down from 100, etc. If all else fails, doodle things related to the lecture. You’ll feel better. Skipped a lot of class? Get back on track in one day.
Write everything down! I can’t stress this enough. Whether it’s a planner app on your phone or a bullet journal or a cheap planner from the dollar store or even a sticky note on your wall, keep track of everything you need to do. Make to-do lists. If you’re easily overwhelmed, write down only three things you need to do that day. Make it as simple as possible. Check your planner every day. You don’t want to miss a deadline because you forgot it.
Do something everyday. Anything, even tidying your desk, to give you a sense of accomplishment, to not give you a “zero day” and make things worse. Just do that thing. Review your notes every so often, even if it’s only for 5 minutes. If you have a big assignment to do, break it down and work on it a little bit. How to start working when you don’t really feel like it
Use the 2-minute rule(s). This is probably the most effective rule I’ve ever used. If it takes you less than 2 minutes to do something, do it right now and finish it. There is another rule with this name: only do the task for 2 minutes. If you can’t get started on something, just do it for 2 minutes. After 2 minutes, you can stop. Chances are, you’ll keep doing the task for more than 2 minutes. And if you don’t? Take a break and try again. You’ll get something done.
Start on an assignment right away. Even if it’s just an outline for what you plan to do with it. Or make a very rough draft to edit.
Set fake deadlines. Your essay might be due in a month, but your outline for your essay is due a week after today, your research notes due a week after that, and a draft a week after that. Write down deadlines 2-3 days before they’re due. You can use those extra days to edit and have someone (your peer, a TA, an older student, the prof) look over it.
Get ahead. If you get ahead right away, by the time you fall behind you’re just on track. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done this, had breakdowns, and still managed to hand things in on time.
Ask for deadlines early. This is the one thing I have difficulty with. If you need extra time, ask ahead. You might not always get the extra time, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. Professors tend to be very understanding.
Are you behind anyway? Get back on track in one day.
Need to get a lot done near the end of the semester? Use this guide.
Stay motivated!
Make a “self-help kit”. Write down reasons why you need to study. Print out pictures of pictures and quotes that inspire you. Write down self-care ideas. Write down songs that make you feel better. Print out self-help guides that pertain to your mental illness(es). This kit is something you will refer to when you need a pick-me-up and you can’t bother your friends/family/significant other. (You can, however, always bother your pet.) Here are some pictures from my kit to help you get started:
Understand that motivation is a finite resource. You will never be motivated all the time. Don’t feel bad if you’re having a “blah” day. Don’t feel bad if you have a “blah” week. This is where the self-help kit comes in handy - you can motivate yourself right away rather than breaking down.
Don’t be hard on yourself. You are capable of great things, but not when your mental illness(es) have a grip on you and you can’t shake it off, no matter how hard you try. You will probably have bad days, and that’s okay. Don’t let it deplete your motivation.
Stay organised!
Your brain may be hectic, but your workspace and your life doesn’t have to be. You don’t have to be super-organised - whatever works for you, do it.
You want to be organised so you can avoid unnecessary stress and wasting time. When you’re organised, you can be more productive and have a better sense of inner peace. Plus, an aesthetically-pleasing study environment can help you boost your mood!
Here are some posts to help you get started.
The Only Organisation Tips You’ll Ever Need
How to get organized (tips from a horrible procrastinator)
How I Organize by learhning
Organisation masterpost by elk-studies
Inbox zero for students
Take care of yourself!
Get enough sleep. Sleep is very important for your mental health. You want sleep to help you consolidate the information you’ve learned in school. And you’ll feel so much less stressed out. Obviously this won’t always happen, especially around the end of the semester, but put in effort to get good sleep. Generally, you’ll want to use your bed only for sleeping and relaxing. Try to go to bed at the same time every night and wake up at around the same time. Here are some tips on how to sleep easy.
Eat properly. You need to fuel your brain! Don’t binge, and don’t forget to eat. Try to eat some fruits and veggies every day. Eat regularly and drink a lot of water. This all sounds cliche but it really works and good foods really help you feel better. Feeling physically healthy, at least for me, helps me mentally as well. You don’t have to eat healthy all the time. You can eat junk food to de-stress. Don’t feel guilty for eating junk food. The point is to have a good balance. Just don’t make your entire diet junk food, and you should be fine. You don’t have to spend a lot of time on your food. Here are some tips for eating when you have zero time.
Exercise! For the mentally ill, exercising is often the last thing we want to do, but exercise just has too many benefits to not do it. You don’t even have to go to the gym. Take walks and do some simple exercises in your room. There are so many workout videos on YouTube - my personal favourite is blogilates, but they’re perfect if you feel too anxious at the gym. Go with friends to the gym if you can. Try to do something every day if you can, but even a couple days a week should help.
Write down things you need to do. Self-care is all about staying healthy and doing things you need to do (eg. chores), even when you don’t want to. You can always enlist the help of friends/family, but independence is key when they’re not available. If I feel like there’s too many things I need to do, I pause everything, take out a piece of paper, and write down basically everything that needs to get done. Then I tackle each item, one at a time. Even if you don’t finish the list, you’ve gotten things done, and there’s less on your mind.
Don’t study everyday. You want to do something productive everyday, but it doesn’t necessarily need to be studying. Use 1-2 days of the week where you don’t study. This will help avoid burnout.
Here are some self-care posts that I recommend:
What to do when you don’t know what to do
Comic for when you’re feeling overwhelmed
Self-care masterpost
Masterpost for rough times
Other resources for getting through college with mental illness(es):
General
How to conquer college with mental illness
Neurodivergent and Studying: Tips & Resources
College and Chronic Illness: 19 Tips to Study Strong and Fight the Fog
A self-care masterpost to get you through school
Studying while dealing with stress/anxiety/mental health issues
Anxiety
Study Tips: Overcoming Anxiety
What not to do when studying with stress/anxiety
Ways to Avoid Burnout at University
How to be productive when you’re anxious
Depression
Coping with Depression at University
Studying with Depression
21 Tips to Keep Your Shit Together When You’re Depressed
Tips from bloggerforstudentprogress
Tips from study-hue
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hey so you know that vicious cycle of mental health making you unproductive which makes your mental health worse? don’t worry friend I am here with something that can help
just get one thing done. break the cycle. it doesn’t have to be some big task. in fact it’s better if it isn’t. decide on something that takes five minutes or less. keep it tiny and manageable - the key is to feel like you’ve accomplished something, so when your brain is all, you can’t even do a single thing all day except lay in bed being useless, you can be like, oh but I did do something, brain, suck on that. it might not seem like much at the time but it helps a lot to have something tangible you can point to
do you have dirty dishes in your bedroom? get rid of ‘em. you don’t have to wash them, just put them in the sink with soapy water. done. easy.
do you have a pile of empty water bottles sitting there? good for you staying hydrated. but you don’t need a mountain of plastic reminders. throw a few in the trash or in recycling. don’t worry about chasing down every single one, just pick a number. get rid of 5 or 10. easy, manageable even if you feel terrible. done.
do you need to do something early tomorrow? get something ready now. just one thing. lay out an outfit. fill the coffee maker so you can just press a button tomorrow. pack your backpack or purse. bonus benefit, future you will have an extra few minutes to breathe in the morning.
do you have a pet? spend 5 minutes with your pet. cuddle them. play tug of war. make baby noises at them. your pet loves you. I bet they miss you when you’re sad. you’ll both feel better.
has it been 3 weeks since you did laundry? pick your clothes up off the floor and put them in a laundry basket. don’t actually wash them or even take the basket anywhere. just collect the clothes for later so they aren’t spread all over. it’ll make actually doing them that much easier when you have more energy
did you manage to wash your clothes but not put them away? fold something. fold another thing. and one more. put them away. three things. you got this one.
did you do your one thing? good. I’m proud of you. even if it didn’t make you feel better, guess what? you did a thing. you got something done, you can be done now. you can go back to bed if you want.
To everyone who’s having a bad day today

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sometimes self care is cancelling an appointment and watching tv and letting yourself nap. Sometimes those things are are ways of exaerbating your anxiety and stress.
sometimes self care is powering through to go to that appointment, to finish that project. and sometimes that can cause breakdowns and panic attacks
there isn’t one right way to do self care. what works for one person can be dangerous or irrelevant to another
and thats ok? you aren’t wrong or weird for not responding or needing to treat yourself differently then how you see other people do it.
our mental states are all unique, and it goes to follow that self care is exactly the same
allow yourself to be proud of yourself and all the progress you’ve made
especially the progress that no one else has seen
self care is valid and good, but at some point you gotta step back and check that you’re actually truly caring for yourself, which sometimes means bullying yourself into getting up and getting air and light, and eating healthy, and doing the things you dont really want to do but you know are good for you. sometimes taking naps and letting yourself off are the best options to be good to yourself, but sometimes theyre not, and you should be careful about it.
FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT you are allowed to feel proud of yourself for things that might seem silly to other people, like getting better at a video game or putting together a nice outfit for the next morning or finishing a book. You deserve to feel proud for your accomplishment.

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