Sorry, there have probably been dozens of threads like this already, but I need to let off some steam, so bear with me if you have the patience :o . I'm in my final year of high school, and it's a bitch, for want of a more elegant description. I've got work pouring down on me ceaselessly - I have the first stage of an assignment due tomorrow that I've barely started, and I have my half-yearly examinations in a little over a week. I'm stressed out of my tiny brain to the point where I am - no joke - undergoing regular psychiatric treatment. My social life has, more or less, disappeared off the face of the earth; my guitar chops are rubbish, because I haven't had the time to do any real practice in weeks. I think that in the end, I'll get a decent UAI - enough to get into a good university course - but I won't get the astronomical score that my parents want me to get, and that's going to disappoint them something awful, possibly to the point where they'll keep nagging me about how much of a failure I am until they day they (or I) die. I'm sorry to be such a whinger, but I was wondering whether anybody here had some general advice to help me stay focussed for the next eight months?