I'm currently in 8th grade and my grades are suffering more than ever before. I started playing Minecraft in 6th grade and I began to fail a few of my classes, I later got them back up to Cs and Bs. In 7th grade I played Minecraft in the beginning then my friends got me in to Steam games, I began playing games occasionally and I only had about 3 games and I played on my crappy laptop. I didn't start getting low grades until around the middle of second semester. Now I am in 8th grade, 57 Steam games and a video game addiction as well. I am getting home and going straight to my computer (No longer a crappy laptop, 32 gigs of ram heavy-duty gaming PC) and lying to my mom that I did my homework. I'm starting to feel so guilty about this, I try so hard to stop lying and to start doing but I'm too much of a lazy bum to get up and put effort into some simple school work. My parents are very harsh about grades too, when I was failing in my earlier middle school years they would take my computer away and do anything possible to make me pass. But this year, my teachers don't email parents and want the students to take things in their own hands. My parents also don't have access to grades online so they have no idea about me failing my classes. I'm seriously failing 6 out of 8 classes… I think. I try to make myself do my work but I just can't. Also I'm becoming so stressed that I'm faking sick and being absent doesn't help my grades at all. Please help, ANYONE! ):
Added (1). I also am stressed over how there are no other girls at my school that are going through this. Each and every girl has perfect grades and that's the same with pretty much every boy too. I really hope I can learn how to focus on school rather than push it away, this is becoming a very stressful problem for me and I can't go a day without imagining the results.
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