Homework help: What is the Autumnal Equinox?

Extreme homework anxiety?! help!?

• I am a 15 year old girl, and I am homeschooled. For the past two years I have been studying for my GED (which is equivalent to a high school diploma). I am completely self-taught, for my mom and dad are divorced, and neither ever have any time to help with my studies. I plan on taking the test when I am sixteen, however, I have severe homework anxiety ALL THE TIME! I always worry and OCD over my homework performance, and I am always worried about failing the GED test when it is time to take it. I have told my dad about my worries, but he seems to think I'm crazy because in his mind he thinks that since I am homeschooled, I shouldn't feel pressured (by the way, no one ever pressures me to do homework, I pressure myself to succeed) he always says "Thats ridiculous! Why are you always so worried?" and makes me feel stupid and crazy :( Today I gave myself an off-day from homework, and now I am having severe anxiety that I am a failure! Please help me, I have no one I can ask for help with the anxiety. :(((

• Answer:

  I don't know how much it will help, but the GED test is really easy. It is usually for high school dropouts who want to go to college, so they don't make it extremely difficult. How much time does it take to do your homework? If you can just fly through all the work (even if you do enough to take a long time), you don't need the practice. Maybe just write down a single problem every night after you do your homework and make a sheet as you go through the month. At the end of the month, do all the problems and look over any you have trouble with. That way, there is no need for anxiety. Either you know it or you don't, and now you'll know you don't so you can fix it.