Now we have this finals thing mapped out. difficult child will take all the exams as planned. He will be missing one or maybe two away games so that he will have a chance to sleep night before exams next morning. He will have planned and scheduled daily study time (part of it supervised) and timetable for things he has to do then. Other than that - no studying, no thinking or stressing over it. That study time should be enough to get things he really needs to do done and hopefully it will lower his stress levels (study time was mental coach's idea to help control difficult child's stress, have I mentioned that I really love the guy? So very calm and common sense approach to everything.)
When asked difficult child did acknowledged he has at times been over-stressed with school, but didn't tell specifics of for example that call he made at Sunday. Still better than total denial I think.
Less than two months and we should have this over with. Hopefully everyone involved will come through it sane. I'm not that worried about difficult child, but I may be found climbing on curtains before this is over. And difficult child's positional coach is even worse to wear. He is the one I mean with 'someone else's headache' in my sig, most of the time. He likes difficult child, is very invested in difficult child's career and has probably not read all the books about detaching 
He complained me that he haven't stressed this much over his own kids' school work combined and he would had torn his hair out by now if he wasn't bald to begin with. Poor guy! He too had been really good to difficult child, but difficult child really isn't too good in rewarding those who help him.
