I swear my eyes nearly gave out today. I needed blue light glasses more than I needed to study. Bloodshot af i look deranged. Im gonna blame not getting a 528 on the abrasive blue light from that stupid screen. Maybe i can sue the aamc❤️
Highkirkenuinely i was seeing nothing at all
This is definitely an odd question, I know! Also probably not the right tag because I am *not* well lol.
I (23f) have bipolar and I'm solidly sure that I'm on the tail end of a hypomanic episode (teetering on manic to be completely honest). I'm testing in TWO DAYS. My episodes are often triggered by stress, so it makes sense that I'm in an episode right now. One of the issues with this is that I'm painfully self-aware, which randomly puts me into lil panic attacks or whatever. I think I'm just now getting really anxious that I might start crashing out during the exam and ruin it (don't worry fellow test-takers, I'll be silent). I'm basically expecting myself to start experiencing a little (lot) bit of dissociation and perhaps an illusion or two while simultaneously thinking about how I need to snap out of it and lock in. I also jusy lost my fucking glasses (hyperopic) so idk what I'm gonna do about that.
Obviously there's nothing I can do to 100% prevent that or to even know for sure that it'll be as bad as I'm expecting, but I just wanted to see if anyone has experience taking the mcat while also unfortunately being manic. And I'm not talking about the hypomania that ppl show on tiktok of being all butterflies and rainbows!!! If anyone has tips on *nondestructive* coping mechanisms you've used while testing, I'd love to hear them.
And before you ask—no I'm not pushing my test. Getting ts over with. I've put way too much into this.
This is really gonna come in clutch for psych/soc at least :)