Anxiety

Wanna hear something ironic? We're studying anxiety in psych right now (and I'm supposed to turn in a care-plan on anxiety Friday morning), and as we were going through stuff last week all of us students were nodding and laughing (what else were we supposed to do, cry?) because we could all relate way too closely!!! And you know what I just realized today?? Our finals are in THREE weeks!!! Wow. I totally thought I had more time than that. Seriously this semester has just FLOWN by. And I realize that after finals we still have a little over two months left in the actual semester, but it is all clinicals. The "test" portion of the semester will be over. We have a huge psych test this Friday, our last pharm test (besides the final) on Saturday, and then another huge psych test in two weeks on the 19th along with an insanely huge psych-med test (I have to memorize 65 psych medications and everything about them!!!) and then only one week later we have two comprehensive finals!!! Yikes. I am already wishing for September 27th to be over (our last final is that day).

I'd better pass. 80% of the class is failing right now. I'm not kidding. I have the highest grade in Process right now, and one of the highest in Pharm. The class average for each of the 4 tests we've taken is 72%. The average. On each test. Scary. 76% is the minimum passing grade. 75.9999999% is failing. I have an 88% in Process (which is the Med-Surg/Psych class) and an 84% in Pharmacology (all IV stuff this semester). I hope this weekend doesn't lower those grades..

I can totally feel the stress, and I know my body is responding to it in not-so-good ways. I may not seem overly stressed out on the outside, but my muscles are all tight and tense and I can't relax and other stuff....my cortisol levels have to be elevated, I know it! :-P

I suppose I should go study for these tests instead of creating more anxiety over them...actually, I think I'll go to bed and get some rest so I can crank out a massive review tomorrow for Friday's psych test.
~Abigail~