exactly the same here but i have somewhat of a help to you all something that has worked very good for me   instead of pushing yourself to “get studying” or “finish the assignment” take a different approach the difficulty for us all is that those tasks are vague very vague finishing the assignment could take 1 hour it could take three hours it could take two full days or you could come to the conclusion you’re already on crash course since there’s no way you’re going to get it done in time the sheer anxiety of the latter being the case and therefore not facing the reality of the task at hand is ultimately what destroys us it’s scared of being unable to do it anyway so why bother but not really taking distance from it properly to be able to relax and forget about it   here’s a trick right now as you’re pushing the task forward as we speak i don’t want you to start working on the task itself but i want you to go and check how much work you expect it to be what exactly is it that you need to learn what parts of the assignment do you have trouble with what has already been done how long will each paragraph take you if you’d had to make a guess   take only as long as you need to know what it is that you need to do maybe you can find a study planner and know within three minutes that’s fine do that maybe it’s a little more work and you need to spend 15 minutes finding the book and scanning through the paragraphs that’s also fine make sure you’re not spending any longer than 15 minutes on it that’s the absolute maximum do it now   not knowing how big the task at hand is is what incapacitates us the most i don’t mind doing a little now maybe for 5 minutes but what if it turns out i need to do a shitload of work i better not start at all in order to prevent me from stressing out right all the while that exact thought is what is stressing you out   go to your room grab that booklaptopwhatever and go check out how much is left to do since if you know what needs to be done it goes from one massive black cloud into multiple smaller tasks some of which may not even turn out to be so bad and maybe you come to the conclusion that you’re way too late and you cannot possibly finish it all in time and that sucks but that’s not a problem at least you now know you have to drop something in order to allow yourself to still get the rest done