Thesis Statements

The hardest part of writing any kind of essay, for me, is the thesis statement. I do not plan on going to college and becoming an english major, so with that in mind, I try to use most of my focus on math and science. Doing this might have hurt my ability to be creative and come up with something in my mind without a set formula. All throughout my life in school, from elementary school up to now, I have relied on formulas or a template that I can just plug in words or numbers. Even the most simple math problems have equations, such as a line (y=mx+b). When I write a thesis statement, I can't get the format of stating my three ideas that was preached to me during AP world and AP US. I feel like I am overcomplicating things alot, but I can't stop myself from it. I start to think about the length of the thesis, the amount of information I use, the overuse of specific details, the simplicity of it, ect. I even get to the point where I confuse myself so much, I forget or don’t know what I am writing about. Once I figure out what I want to write, I then go through the painful process of transfering it from my mind to paper, which I have never been good at. I never have a problem writing a research paper, or any kind of writing in which I have specific information that I can refer. I even wrote a great research paper last year about health care, which I know nothing about, all because I was able to use sources that gace me an idea of what to write about. But having to use my imagination, even to create one simple thesis statement, has the ability to freak me out.