So I've noticed lately that around hour five or six of studying, I start to feel like I'm going to burst out of my skin. My hand is cramping up. I sigh every five minutes. My leg is tapping. My eyes hurt. My lower back is aching. I've been sitting at a desk too long. So I take a ten minute break.
Problem is, even after the ten minute break is over, I still feel like that. So I grab coffee and a snack and sort of will power my way through the remaining hours. Sometimes as many as 6-8 more.
Still, incredibly uncomfortable. I don't even think I have attention disorder, I just don't think it is natural to sit all day everyday writing for months on end.
But obviously, studying constantly is needed and there nothing to do with it. So how do you cope? I can give myself pep talk, hence the will powering my way through it, but my body protests.
I sometimes wish all my lessons could have like props and materials that I could interact with and walk around learning. But it would take too long to make them and I don't think a museum of interactive medical lessons is in any school's budget.
I digress, coping mechanisms?
Problem is, even after the ten minute break is over, I still feel like that. So I grab coffee and a snack and sort of will power my way through the remaining hours. Sometimes as many as 6-8 more.
Still, incredibly uncomfortable. I don't even think I have attention disorder, I just don't think it is natural to sit all day everyday writing for months on end.
But obviously, studying constantly is needed and there nothing to do with it. So how do you cope? I can give myself pep talk, hence the will powering my way through it, but my body protests.
I sometimes wish all my lessons could have like props and materials that I could interact with and walk around learning. But it would take too long to make them and I don't think a museum of interactive medical lessons is in any school's budget.
I digress, coping mechanisms?
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