Hello to anyone who reads this. I've been struggling for a while now and feel like it's finally time I did something to reach out, to see if there's anyone who I can talk to about what I've been experiencing. I don't feel like I'm actually doing so bad now, but these horrible anxious feelings have started to come and go in waves, and it's really getting frustrating. But let me back up and talk about the whole story first. I think it was around December when I really started feeling "off." I just didn't care about school anymore and I was finding it very difficult to stay motivated. I flew through my first two years of college just wanting to work hard and feeling passionate about everything, but I felt like I was starting to lose that. I thought maybe I was just going through a slump and tried to brush it off, but it started to get worse. I've always been kind of a worrier, but it started to really get away from me. I would feel overwhelmed to the point that I couldn't work on assignments. I had to drop some responsibilities (such as studying for entrance exams) because the thought of how I might perform on them just stressed me out so badly. I've never experienced testing anxiety before. I began to doubt that my friends and my professors truly liked me, and I sort of turned inward to deal with all the stress. When I tried to talk to one of my professors about how I was feeling, he insisted that I was just overthinking everything. And that's the problem! I KNOW I'm overthinking stuff and that I'm making things seem worse than they actually are. Believe me, I know. But I don't know how to fix it. I can identify that I'm overwhelming myself, but emotionally I can't seem to turn it off. I feel this immense pressure to do everything right and to please people, but it's just become so overbearing that I can hardly stand it. I like to think that people will be supportive of me, but I can't help but doubt it. And I don't know who to talk to about this. I feel like if I tell someone about this they're just going to think I'm crazy and being dramatic. And maybe I am. But I don't know. I backed off of some things of was feeling better for a couple of weeks, but the stressy/anxious feelings have started to come back recently and I'm really starting to get sick of it. Does any of this make any sense? Is there any explanation for why I feel like this? Am I just being dramatic? Any advice or just knowing someone else feels like this would be so much appreciated.