focus

i'm finding it very hard to focus right now. i need to finish my paper, but, with many outside frustrations plaguing me and many questions being brought up in my life, i really don't know how i can write the paper. sure, i need to get it done, but how am i supposed to write about something that doesn't matter to me? especially when, in order to do so, i must put aside these emotions, tensions, and anxieties that are of significance to me--and that i do not desire to push aside?