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Old Jan 10, 2014, 09:07 AM
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At some point you are going to have to make a decision on what you want to do with and about your anxiety? It sounds like you are building up quite a bit of being anxious about being anxious and that is really hard to work with (I had that). Leaving home and parents and going away to school and figuring out what you want to work at, getting a job, etc. is pretty stressful for everyone and if we have not done anything much before on our own it is even more stressful but it has to be done as we cannot (or do not want to) live at home with mom and dad all our lives? The longer we practice being afraid of the future and what might happen the more ingrained that habit will become and the worse we will do.

If you are not going to transfer until September, I would make a plan now, get to the library and find books on anxiety and find a social group to join and work at getting out of the house and making a couple friends and learning to talk to other people and be more on my own, etc. so you do not have quite as much additional anxiety on top of what is naturally there for everyone. Make a plan to show your parents (and yourself) that you can do this if it is what you want.
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