Should I talk to my GP? SQE exam stress

[worrieddaughter97]

I'm sitting the SQE exams in 2 months - they're the solicitor's qualifying exams and dubbed by a lot of people as the toughest exams you'll ever sit.

I feel a huge sense of dread whenever I think of them, I could cry and I'm so stressed already. I'm stressed to the point I can hardly study.

Is it worth talking to my GP? I don’t know what they'd do but I'm worried that this level of stress won't be good for my normal health, or for my mental health in the run up to my exams

Sounds like you've taken the negative comments about the exams to heart and you're doubting yourself which is setting off the emotion of fear and the fight or flight response. Yes, of course they are difficult but they're meant to be, as are medical exams and similar professional exams. In the first instance can you talk to your tutor to get some perspective on your level of study?

I totally get that they're meant to be hard.

I'm self studying, and have no formal tutors etc.

I feel like my stress is spirally, and some days I just feel paralysed by it

My therapist recommended Michael Galyon on Tik tok for meditation content.

I'm a lawyer. Just about limping on with work related stress and anxiety. Wasn't sure whether to mention that bit as I'm not sure the stress goes away after exams

Spookily I was watching a live Youtube as I read your update which had a very useful hack for you.

When you are panicking or having an anxiety attack force the two hemispheres of you brain to collaborate by taking a small object (say a bottle of water) and passing it from hand to hand. Apparently it works, every time.

This is the link with the info (and the explanation), you can watch it on catch up.