Sleep deprived college student?!


Question: Sleep deprived college student?
I am seventeen years old and a sophomore in college and I have been feeling very run down lately. My days are insanely busy from 6:30 in the morning until after ten at night. All of the time between classes, work, and rehearsals is taken up by tutoring. I only have to make it a couple more weeks and then the play will be over so I should at least have evenings free but right now I don't have time to do anything. I haven't even been able to make it to Bible study or any of my boyfriend's basketball games since school started up again. I'm so tired and drained of energy all the time and half the time I don't even get to have lunch because I have choir at noon everyday. Today I finally have a little bit of time this afternoon just to be at home and I am using it to catch up on some homework but what I really want to do is sleep. I have rehearsal tonight until ten. Do you think it would be helpful to take a nap or just throw off my entire sleep schedule even more than it already is?

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Wow you are an amazing person for doing all that consistently. You need a vacation. Take small naps throughout the day when you get the chance. It wont throw off your sleep schedule.

I am a sophomore in college also



yes me too



ok, your 17, in college and learning to be an adult. Here is the first lesson - YOU must take care of YOU- FIRST!

If you are not taking care of your health, you cannot take care of any one else or meet any commitments.

As a teenager, you need more sleep than you will later in life, and definitely more than you are getting.

So here is the second hard part about being an adult - you need to make decisions. You need to prioritize your activities and taking care of yourself needs to be higher on your list.

Short term, limit naps to 20 minutes

good luck



My advice to you. You're probably carrying a full scholastic load and you're doing all this extraneous stuff too. You need to sit down and rethink your priorities. Pick at least one thing that you can cut from your schedule.

You are on a path to burn out. And for someone who has quite apparently put so much into getting to where you are, it's just not worth it. I fully well remember graduate school, it was nuts. But, I made sure that I had some me time. You need some you time, OK.




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