<p>Everything's too much. Parental pressure and expectations; family problems; the future; friends and my school; assignments and studying.</p>
<p>At the same time, I've taken on this lackluster approach to life. Everything bores me, everything seems to be disappointing. People seem so stupid and silly and ordinary. I feel like I could/should be doing more. I'm so sick of being in this rut. Basically, I'm depressed (but not in any extreme way), bored, and stressed.</p>
<p>Any thoughts/revelations/heart burn? You guys are supposed to be geniuses.</p>
<p>extremely stressed. Sat IIs/AP tests are driving me bonkers. I am literally at my breaking point. My parents asked me what was wrong, I told them, then they spent thirty minutes yelling at me. I just hate life right now.</p>
<p>It just gets more stressful once you move out. I’m stressed enough with my own problems so far that they overwhelm me–not to mention I have severe anxiety.</p>
<p>There are ways bring yourself out of the rut. Find something that you enjoy doing and make it a daily thing. For me it’s reading a good novel–I try to spend at least an hour or two reading and somehow it calms me for a while. If you’re stressed about school, try making a list of priorities. You’ll imagine that your assignments aren’t that huge once you’ve written them down and actualized the order of which you’ll get them done. I do this regularly with juggling my homework assignments, bills, and savings and surprisingly it helps some of the stress that I have because my tasks don’t seem as big on paper as they do in my head.</p>
<p>Parental pressure is hard to avoid. I wouldn’t know a good solution to help you with but when someone is stressing me out, I tend to ignore them and focus on other aspects of my life. This may seem like running away but it’s better then being caught in the middle.</p>
<p>This actually describes what I’ve been feeling for a while now, probably since February. It’s like I’m constantly bored. I’m getting a job soon, so we’ll see how that works.</p>