Social Worked Myself

One of the biggest topics in my social work classes is to identify the individual’s strengths, to remind them of all of their accomplishments, and identify their weaknesses, to determine places of improvement.
I mentioned before how I’ve realized how behind I am already getting in my school work, but today I realized I REALLY am behind. I’m so stressed that I have the worst stomach ache that’s making me nauseous. Everything is piling up and the due dates are ending up to be all clustered together. IT’S ONLY SEPTEMBER! I can’t even practice what I preach with identifying strengths and finding the positivity besides the fact that I would have completely forgotten to do/ turn in the homework, thus probably getting no grade for the assignment!
We are also taught about self-care so we don’t completely burn out. This is something I completely SUCK at. My professor says that we need to schedule in self-care time, but honestly, I can’t even imagine doing that. In my mind, that is time wasted when I could be doing school work, housework, or working! These are all important to me and when I happen to get free time, that’s when I take self-care, but I’m like in distress mode already…