Second Semester Anxiety

N_s_Mom
Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:05:49 +0000

D realized she needed to change her approach during winter quarter her sophomore year. On the outside, she looked like a major success - heaps of praise that were meant to be encouraging but just raised the stakes. She ‘hit the wall’ so to speak: She realized she was so stressed out by her own and others expectations that she wasn’t taking enough risks academically and being as creative as she could be or wanted to be in her discipline(s). She decided that she needed to be okay with failing. And she wasn’t feeling the joy that her studies (and relationships) had previously brought her. That’s what got her into the psychologist’s office winter quarter - and overseas for her first self-study abroad in the spring. When she came back, she decided to do things differently - hence the suggestions in the prior post.