Is it normal to feel really weird before a big deadline?

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Whenever there is a big deadline coming up or some kind of important appointment, about a week before it's due, even if it's something easy, I start to feel, like, extremely weird... I constantly have butterflies in my stomach, I find myself persistently thinking of and obsessing over really weird things and because of this I have insomnia, I get these intense sensual phases that are really hard to explain (I'm a guy, FYI), and once the deadline is over, I instantly start to feel normal. I'm sure it could be just nerves, but I never thought nerves could be this weird... Is this normal?

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  • esoteric
    13 years ago | pl

    as a high school student i can say that happens to me all the time when it comes to tests or projects. even when i know that i'm good for it, i get really nervous

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  • sweetlilwookims
    13 years ago | pl

    I’ve always found that I only feel nervous if I know I did not do my best. If maybe I just took the easy way out and justified it to myself that this is as good as everybody else, and that’s good enough for something of this magnitude. But I still know I didn’t really ‘try’ so I do not feel at peace with myself. If I give a project my all, it feels great.

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  • lynn
    13 years ago | pl

    Everyone feels nervous sometimes

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  • mleko
    13 years ago | pl

    It is probably anxiety

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