Today is my last day at my current job and I'm really emotional right now. The people I work with (elderly people with dementia and my coworkers) have become like family to me and I don't want to just lose my family but in another sense I'm about to regain my real family because I'm about to move in with my parents for a year. I'm really anxious about that. It will be really nice to feel financially secure for once and to have free gym access because my mom works at a gym and to get to eat the healthy food that my mom makes. But my dad is retired so he'll be home with me ALL of the time. Don't get me wrong I love my dad but I also value alone time and privacy and not feeling pressured to be a good little girl all of the time.

I have to quit smoking cigarettes by the time I move and stop drinking so much which sounds hard right when I'm going through this transition. I'm really bad at transitions and they usually trigger episodes for me.

Does anyone have any advice for getting through this transition without going off the rails?