My son is smart and excelling, but every time before exams, he complains of stomach aches, nausea, or headaches. Sometimes he sleeps a lot, cries a lot, and doesn’t want to open a book. This must be due to the evil eye.
Exams are usually linked to anxiety. Either because one wants to excel and succeed to get into a good college, or more often, to please their parents, who constantly demand they study to make them proud, so they can boast about them, or to get them a gift.
Or, on the other hand, they study because they’re afraid of punishment if they don’t get a good score, and they want to escape family reproach.
“What makes the student who came in first better than you?” “You’re missing a grade and a half on your certificate???” “Why? What did we fall short on with you?” “Alright, as punishment, you won’t get this and that…”
Here, this family has committed a disaster, literally.
This is an obsessive family that strives for perfection, and perfection belongs to God alone. Here, the family didn’t see the student’s effort or hard work. Their son, who scored 98%, is a failure in their eyes. So what do they do to the student?
When he takes the exam again, what about his self-confidence?! He enters anxious and afraid of failure. What does this anxiety do to him?! Anxiety erases the mind and paralyzes thinking, literally. The student enters, and as soon as he holds the exam paper, he forgets everything, and he puts in great effort to remember, and his achievement decreases.
Other people, as a result of anxiety two weeks or a month before the exam, experience a state of depression. The family complains that he sleeps a lot, is in a bad mood, is irritable, and doesn’t want to open a book.
Or, on the night before the exam, he suffers from insomnia, can’t sleep, and goes to the exam without any sleep. He can’t eat before the exam because he feels nauseous or has stomach pains.
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