I am a university student and help out with some research studies. I'm having a really tough time with anxiety right now - my anxiety has progressively gotten worse over the past year. I just started seeing a counselor and am trying to reduce my workload, but I'm still struggling. I've barely stayed on top of things over the past month, but I'm worried two of the profs I help will start to think I'm unreliable. I missed/ignored group emails from one of them for a week because I was too anxious to respond and they noticed - I replied back and am trying to fix it now. The other prof I sent a document to them that they needed to review somewhat last minute (ideally I would have it to them at least a week before but it ended up being 4 days, includong the weekend).

I'm really bad at asking for help and also tend to hide when I'm struggling, but I would like to clear things up with both of them. The work I'm doing with them is stuff that I'm super interested in and excited to learn, but anxiety is making everything so much more difficult. I also need reference letters from them when I apply to grad school. I want to keep helping them with research (trying to reduce my stress in other areas of my life so I can keep doing this), but I'm just so worried they'll be mad at me. Therapy is helping a little bit so far and I'm adjusting to planning my semester out to give me a bit of leeway with my anxiety. It also doesn't help that I mostly communicate with them via email nowadays  (sending important emails stresses me out) and, even though they're nice people, the student-professor dynamic can be intimidating. So anyway, just looking for advice on how to approach my supervisors and show them that I'm still a good student, I'm just struggling.