How do you cope with the pressure?

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I took a college course that frankly was a walk in the park, i had to do something that would accomodate the fact that i may have overload one day, or be having a bout of anxiety or depression and it wouldn't matter if i missed a say or two due to it. Now i am fed up, i'm off my meds and coping ok but i'm unfulfilled. I want to get into forensic science. It may be hard or it may be easy for me, who knows but that isn't going to bother me at all. The general aspects of AS are what is going to make it hard, very hard. If i spend a whole heap of money on this and years of my time and then i crumble then it's not worth it. I need and want desperatly to get out of my comfort zone to persue something that exites me but if i miss even one day of that course i will be missing vital information! The thought of that alone could cause overload.
How did you get out of your comfort zones and what happened when you finally did?

First, every professor, if they're good, knows that not everyone is able to make class every day and either makes copies of the lecture and information, or lets you talk to them after the fact to see what you missed. A lot of my professors wouldn't mind if I emailed them (because I talking to people face to face) to get the missed information, and one professor even taped his lectures so I could listen to the ones I missed in the library. (Note: I didn't miss class that often, though.)

Second, about the comfort zone thing. In a lot of the science and math classes, students form study groups. I didn't like the thought of that, since I rarely do well in a group of people I don't know. But since the odds of missing a class were pretty high, I bit the bullet (isn't that a silly phrase?) and started one of my own. The result? Even though I missed about six days of class over the semester, I still passed the final because of the kids in my study group.

And the even better thing? I met my best friend ever in that group, and while he is now off in medical school and I am starting over as a freshman, we still talk...or email and IM, actually, since he knows I talking over the phone.

I use drugs to create a mobile safe zone localized around my body. (I didn't say it was a healthy solution.)

when i get to stressed in school i have two methods to deal with it.

1.) head on desk eyes closed wait for lesson to end, practise my breathing speak to TA or see if i can leave with TA.

2.) leave the room, i normally go to learning support or the libery. somtime teacher will offer me the chance to go if it is a lesson they think i will do better on my own without the class getting in the way or being load.

Jammie