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Thanks Maria, I appreciate your post very much! Where did you go to college? This is a very challenging time in our lives, isn't it? I graduated like 3 years ago, and ever since my parents have been pressuring me to go to grad school, because it's hard to make money without a further degree... I know I am very interested in the human mind and exploring it, but I don't know if I want to be a therapist. Last year I applied to grad schools and got into 2 of the 3 I applied to.. however I've been so unsure if this is what I want to do, which is I think what's caused so much stress for me. I'm scared that going to grad school will cause a lot of stress and IBS flare ups, which makes me doubt wanting to go. Major life choices are so hard! Espically when you are a sensitive person. It makes me fearful of my future, because I know life just gets more complex and challenging as we get older, and I fear that I won't be able to handle all of this, like I'm too sensitive for this world! But in some ways I'm a very strong and powerful woman, although I am not feeling that part of me much these days.
Life is crazy, man! So many challenges, so much beauty! I don't know how to handle it all right now. I've often thought that socializing is like a muscle, if you don't excercise it, it goes away... but you can easily make it come back, it just takes time. That's how I feel about every aspect of life right now, that I haven't been excercising my "life" at all, and it's all disappeared... seriously I used to be always busy, socializing with everyone, dancing, yogaing, working... now all of that is gone. I sometimes feel like my identity is gone, which brings up the existential issues of "Who are we if we are not our personlaity?"... Anyway!
Can you relate to some of this? What's your story?

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