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I have ADHD with obsessive-compulsive and anxiety comorbities.
I just cant study! When i start forcing myself to do it, i start getting anxiety attacks and i am only realy calm down when i totaly forget study.
I normaly only study a few hours before the exam when i realy panic because i didnt study and go into over-drive studying. It is usualy too late by then.
Has anyone got any tips or ideas on how i can get some study done before its too late?

From the day I discovered it, until the day I left school...

There is a program that you can download called "Wizflow."  It is a really nice flowchart maker.  I would make detailed charts from my class notes and such.  By the time the chart looked great, I had accidentally studied everything. 

And it was relaxing - not much resistance to working on it a little bit any time.  Heck, sometimes during the semester course work!

Heh! Good luck!

I checked the program out but i am afraid it wont help. I am a computer engineering major and flowcharts are basicly what i have to study. :(

I dunno...I cannot drop out because it would kill my gf and i am under a huge amount of pressure from her to finish my degree.

God this is hard...
Is it somehow possible to put off exams or finishing the degree?  I've similar symptoms, and had to do that at least twice, and wish I'd put off my graduate degree exams.  The time and space to study according to your own structures (assuming you can keep at it) got me through both times.  At the very least, taking a year out allows you to figure out what is going wrong and to develop strategies to cope.  Also, do you get accomodations on assignments and exams?

Register with the Disability Resources Center.  They can help you get accomodated test times and extentions when you need it.  And try taking wellbutrin and/or strattera for your symptoms.  Both are excellent for anxiety as well as ADHD.  I wouldn't suggest stimulants just yet, as they tend to make anxiety worse.  Personally though, I historically had anxiety issues, and adderall really helped (though it was anxiety based on my inability to complete my tasks because of my severe ADHD).  Though the rebound effect is much more likely to cause anxiety in you if your body has already trained itself to read certain physical symptoms as the onset of a panic attack.