The main thing I learned in these past several years is no matter what
to never give up. Never stop searching for advice or solutions. Never give up on yourself. When you live life with this mindset, you start attracting good things into your life. Of course there is no such thing as a perfect life, there will always be
problems. But you can make improvements on how you handle these problems.

I can definitely say I’m able to cope and deal with life in a much more positive way compared to 5 years ago.There are many life skills that I have learned from my personal coaching sessions that I never learned just through living life.

I also have issues with focusing and studying. I mean seriously major
issues! Lol. But I can say that each semester that has gone by I have improved my studying skills. I’m in my last semester of school and I definitely improved my ability
to sit and study no matter how badly I don’t want to. Also, full disclosure, I take a small dose of medication to help with these ADHD-like symptoms. It’s a
very small dose of adderall. I only took the medication after many sessions of talking to the psychiatrist. So I don’t abuse the medication and I don’t
even take it every day. I only take the medicationa few times a week when I need to have some serious studying sessions. Once I’m done with the CPA exam I don’t plan no using the adderall anymore.
If you see a psychiatrist you can ask them about the drug called Straterra. It is effective for both anxiety/depression and ADHD/concentration issues. And the benefit is that it is not a stimulant like adderall, so it doesn’t have those addictive qualities. I even had a trial run with Straterra and found it helped but I couldn’t continue with it because it was so expensive and I didn’t have insurance at the time. That is why I had to take adderall because it is much cheaper than Straterra.

About the career fairs….I came to the conclusion that career fairssuck! Sorry, I can’t think of a better way to put it. lol. I felt totally awkward at the career fair too! It’s so unnatural! But at least it’s not something we have to do every week. It’s just a couple of times in our lives when we have to do it and then that is it. In my opinion, the main solution to the career fair nervousness is to practice. I
practiced for the career fair the same way I would practice for a class
presentation. I just did it over and over again. And keep remembering that
many other people feel as uncomfortable as you do at the career fair.

I was also very nervous for my first and second interview and the pre-interview dinners the night before! I had not felt that nervous in a long time! And again, for lack of a better word, it sucked. But I knew that this was not going to be forever. And I also tried to focus instead on how happy I was that I got the interviews. I kept reminding myself that I worked hard and deserve to be here. And I’ll be grateful no matter whether I get the job or not. Many experts say that practicing gratitude is an effective way to deal with anxiety/depression.

With finding a therapist or personal coach…I had 2 other therapists/coaches before working with my current coach. I’m so glad I have my current coach. The first two in my opinion were not as good. But I think it is different for
each person. So my advice is try out a coach or therapist and after a few sessions if you don’t like him/her or feel it’s not working then find someone else.
Don’t give up on finding the right person to help you! Same thing applies to finding a psychiatrist you like and trust.

I hope I have been able to help in some way! Again, I completely relate to your issues. In a weird way it’s sometimes nice to know you’re not the only one dealing with these kinds of things.