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[quote=Anonymous]See if using a timer might help. Just ten minutes to start, short break, then work up to longer stretches. My DD with inattentive ADHD and anxiety started doing this mainly to help with focus, but it also really helps with the anxiety about getting started. So you don't have to tackle the whole assignment at once, just work for ten minutes. You might manage five problems or one, a whole paragraph or just the first sentence, but it's doable. And once you've seen that you can manage that, the next ten minutes are less daunting. Ideally, once they get going, they won't need the breaks and can just keep on until they finish. But if not, at least it's a way to keep things rolling.[/quote]
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