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By BadPuns - 27/05/2016 03:03 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I woke up with pitch black spots under my eyes. My father thinks I am depressed and my sister thinks I have cancer. The issue? Major sleep deprivation from finals. FML.
I agree, your life sucks 379
You deserved it 50

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I know this is often what students do when studying for finals, but this will actually make you worse off. Sleep helps people store memories, especially for long term, cramming and pushing off sleep will actually not help you at all and could cause you to blank during the test. It has been shown that people do better on tests when it's balanced, study for a few hours, take a half an hour break, then study more, etc, and absolutely sleep at least 6hrs a night. If you flood your brain with all this info, with no breaks and no time to process it, not only will your body burn out, but your mind will too.

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Best thing to do is to sleep early and wake up early,studying at least that's what I do

I know this is often what students do when studying for finals, but this will actually make you worse off. Sleep helps people store memories, especially for long term, cramming and pushing off sleep will actually not help you at all and could cause you to blank during the test. It has been shown that people do better on tests when it's balanced, study for a few hours, take a half an hour break, then study more, etc, and absolutely sleep at least 6hrs a night. If you flood your brain with all this info, with no breaks and no time to process it, not only will your body burn out, but your mind will too.

I like InfiniteSunshine's answer. But why you rely on what others think is something I struggled with for 30 years before I literally crumbled into a breakdown. I get it that you are doing what you can to get a good education, so I really recommend you add, "value people who see you as you have/are, not for what they think you have/are" The secondary deeper step is to challenge the basis of how your family gets to know you. If their guesses are in fields of negativity, how are you reacting to counter them?