School Stress

Today I wanted to discuss school. Which I know I do mention in my blog posts from time to time, but I want to talk about the emotional impact school has on teenagers.

So I am currently in VCE (for those of you who don't know what that is, it's my final years of schooling that isn't university). Leading up to my final years of high school, I have not been prepared. School was a breeze until now. I actually kind of enjoyed it, the work load was manageable and I loved going to see my friends and what not. Now though, school is far from an enjoyable place for me. My friends are stressed out, I'm stressed out, I have homework coming at me like it's going out of fashion and the kids are just horrible these days. I guess kids have always been horrible, but I just don't know how to deal with it on top of all the stress from the workload.

It's by far the most stressed school has ever made me, and next year is apparently worse and I'm seriously dreading it. All this stress goes towards the rest of my life, my future job. And everyone keeps reminding me of that like it's going to make me feel better. The way I see it, if I don't do these next two years really well, that is going to effect my future which creates even more stress. But doing well these next two years is extremely hard to manage for someone like me who's just sort of your average student. I'm also struggling with the amount of time I have to devote to school. It's not your usual six hour day anymore, no. I'm quite often, still doing homework until after dinner time and sometimes I do it right up until I go to bed. I'm just running out of time to spend on doing things other than homework. And some days I decide to just have a break and enjoy myself, but that always gets me behind in my homework which is even more stressful. 

Teachers and parents just don't really understand how damaging school can be to someones mental health, and I guess physical health to some extent as well. I know it's just a short term pain for long term gain situation, but I'm struggling a lot with school, and I don't even know where I'm going with my future, so I have no motivation at all.

If any of you have any advice is dealing with the stress of VCE, I would love to hear it. Because I'm at the point where I kind of just want to stay in bed and never go to school again. 

Anyway, sorry for the rant. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there feeling like this though. 

Yours Truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo