Overwhelmed
I’m 21 and feeling lost and overwhelmed. I’m studying for my NCLEX-RN after failing once, and repeated low practice scores make me doubt myself. I’ve missed my periods, noticed facial and neck hair, and I’m struggling with weight gain, which makes me feel uncomfortable in my own body. Not having a driver’s license and being mocked by family and relatives adds to the pressure—they say I look older or pregnant, and it hurts. I’m trying to move forward, but right now it feels like I’m carrying everything alone.
@Rkaur6884
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I'm so sorry you are struggling.
Exams are hard and enough pressure without your family piling in and adding more.
All you can ever do is your best.
Breaking it down into small, manageable tasks allows you to tick things off, and the progress gives you confidence.
It's not nice when we struggle with how we are looking and feeling in our own body.
But your loved ones should be uplifting you.
Not making you feel bad.
You are strong, capable and beautiful, irrespective.
I'm sorry your periods are affected too.
Some vitamins to lift and boost your immune system, if you talk to a pharmacist, could help 💚
Genuinely wishing you all the best 💚

@Rkaur6884 hey love! I'm in grad school right now at the age of 28 (I'll be 29 in 21 more days lol), but I want to tell you to keep persevering, join the student chat for support because there is a community for us college students, go to therapy to talk about performance anxiety and the pressure you feel. You're doing the right thing which is posting on here for us to respond to you, you aren't alone! Keep going, you are wayyyyyy more disciplined than I was at 21, don't give up! Stay focused and be positive, you're doing the right thing! Good job! Pat yourself on the back and have self compassion, this moment of grinding through school is not for forever, it's just a small moment in time 🙌
i cant say i have much skill with this topic but i can show you soemthing from when i was drinknig all the time and wrote in a notebook i never made it to collage highschool drop out to get factory job to make money to help family but heres this when i read it i rememeber we are not alone and more less than we realize ( old notes/ writing while heavy drinking there’s doodles but can’t type those ) What to do there is a way that there is never the less that which can’t be yet possible. Throwing brick all day, building all the way for bosses who act the same from the morning clock in machine to the box we not away rotting for we retire in we all have a little in common why can’t we try to be a little more nice we are human after all. Sands of time waits for no-one only history will tell for it never stops flowing, why understand time is as at a steady pace. That that which moves forward can’t understand, as dust moves unseen there’s plenty in this world. People we pass are all wondering the same life we exist in, as we must go with every aspect of life we have grown to explore weather good or bad experience in life for the most part we are all human with daily tasks to keep others happy or even ourself to be happy, even the want to be happy can make the smartest person miserable trying to make the wrong person happy at the same time with the right person happiness can levitate with just the thought can light up their world.