I’m currently extremely anxious and stressed about the passage of time. I’m 19, just turned 19, and my childhood seems like it’s passed in the blink of an eye. I’m afraid life is just going to be like that. I’m having a hard time living in the moment. I think a lot of my fear has been exacerbated bc of the pandemic, and because I’m not working or doing school at the moment. So there is a lot of unstructured time to my thoughts. I hate being alone with my thoughts. I’ve realized that I’ve kind of become very clingy with my parents, and I’m also worried about when I go back to college if it’s going to be extremely isolating. I’ve thought a lot about my mental health and I think it’s not the healthiest? I think talking to someone would probably help, but I’m also afraid it won’t. Or that I’ll make the person I’m talking to stressed about my problems. My school does offer counseling services but only once classes begin again and they’ll probably only be remote. I don’t know... I think Im just stressed. And I don’t know how to fix it. But I’m hoping things will get better.
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I'm addressing this to Constantly Stressed and to Emily... I agree with the advice that Emily shared. I have to say that in my late teens and early 20s I was terrified at having to deal with life in a responsible way. My life only began when I left home at the age of 28 at the beginning of 1979. The political and social situation, here in the U.S. with the pandemic is different from what I was trying to deal with. Good luck with College!