It is summer, and very hot in my apartment. Yet I am supposed to be working all summer (from home), until I start my new job in august (which will be very busy from the start). I have more work to do than I think I can finish even if I work around the clock everyday including the weekends. This is not the kind of thing I can postpone or ignore. It needs to be done, or I will be in trouble.
When I think about everything I am supposed to do, I can feel a slight nausea setting in. Every time I open my work e-mail my heart is racing. Every time my phone rings I worry who it is. I got an e-mail the other day that complicated things for me, and I started sweating out of nowhere and feeling dizzy. I think I experienced a panic attack for the first time in my life. So I just keep working, one thing at a time, without thinking about everything as a whole. I have not been outside more than 2 hours in the past week. I have not slept more than 5 hours a night in over a month.
It's ok though. Just a few more months like this. By December, everything will be normal again.