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School, social media and life … take up a lot of time!

I’ve been meaning to write a blog for a long time now, but I’ve been SOOOO busy these past few, well, months! I’m graduating this coming spring, and it takes up more time than I thought. Which is pretty normal, I guess, but I’ve been ignoring that the first few months of the school year.

The thing is, I have to make a thesis, which consists of research and than a practical part, in which I have to test my research results. But to do research, you have to read a LOT. And that’s my problem, I have very little concentration and because of that, I don’t like to read. Well, to be honest, I’m afraid of books.

All the time when I’m reading, I really struggle to have enough concentration to even understand what the book says and that constantly reminds me of the fact that I have Tourette and that, because of that, there’s something I cannot do. I don’t like it when I’m reminded of that, and I’m actually really afraid of that feeling, so books were just not my thing..

For the first few months I just ignored the fact that I had to read, but that also meant that I fell a few months behind. So I finally decided to go back to my psychologist and have a session of EMDR, which is a great therapy that helps me with just about anything.

After one session it was way better, and now I’m almost back where I have to be to graduate and turn in my thesis on time. I’m still struggling to start working on it every time I need to, but I noticed I wasn’t the only student — especially not the only student with Tourette — who has that problem.

I don’t really know how to change it, except for working late at night. But that only makes it worse in the morning, and I still have two days of interning every week, so I have to get up early those days. I do keep my free Wednesdays and weekends, to rest, otherwise I go crazy. So I only have two days a week left to work on my thesis and other school stuff, but that’s OK. In the end, I really think it’s gonna be OK and I will be able to turn in my thesis on time and, if so, I might even graduate early!

To end on a positive note: The Dutch TSA is now the third most influential patient organization on social media in THE ENTIRE COUNTRY (The Netherlands)! And that’s for a big part because of me! I did a social media course a few months back and now everything is organized, and I really know what I’m doing, so our Kloutscore went up big time!

We now have way more influence and also much more interaction, followers and likes, and I’m really proud of that! Of course, it takes up a bit (more) of my time, but I really love it! It’s really a lot of fun doing it and seeing my follower count go up every day :) So … NJCTS, need a pro to run your social media? ;)

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LauraB

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  1. what are the addresses for the dutch tsa social media sites like facebook and twitter? i dont know where to look.

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