A reminder that you can’t outplan your mental disability/illness. There’s never going to be a schedule that will magically make your disability disappear, that will make you be able to do things as if you weren’t disabled.

No amount of telling yourself that ‘this school year will be different’, ‘this semester I’m going to attend all the classes and do all the work and take all the exams on time’ and ‘I’m going to get this huge list of tasks done tomorrow’ will make any of that true.

In fact, setting such high expectations and putting so much passive pressure on yourself will only make everything worse.

But what will work is being honest with yourself, and planning with your disability in mind, whether that means taking into account that you won’t be able to do anything for a couple weeks at a time, or that you can only work an hour a day, or learning how to recognize when your disability/illness is about to act up (if there are signs) and preparing for it by messaging professors and prepping whatever you’ll need to get through it- meds, snacks, water bottles, etc.

Most importantly, learning to be kind to yourself will help you get through things far better than being unrealistic and mean ever will.