Feeling overwhelmed after graduating college? Discover effective strategies to navigate anxiety and stress from a qualified therapist. Learn how to prioritize self-care and adopt healthy coping mechanisms to ease your transition into the real world.
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Anxiety is a common mental health issue among college students, and it can have a significant impact on their daily life. As a result, many college students in New York seek therapy for anxiety to help them manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life. New York consists of competitive schools and universities. With this comes academic, emotional, and social pressures. This commonly manifests in an overwhelming sense of anxiety for students.
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With the school year coming to an end and summer break on the horizon, starting therapy may not be top of mind if you’re a college or graduate student. But as a therapist, I believe beginning therapy over the summer is actually the best time to take charge of your mental and emotional wellbeing. It’s a unique opportunity to be proactive with your mental health so that you can set a strong foundation when school year stress and your busy schedule ramp up again. Here are just a few of the reasons why starting therapy over the summer is a good idea!
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College can be both an exciting and overwhelming time. No matter where you are along your college journey, you may find yourself coping with physical and emotional exhaustion while striving to manage and succeed in all that college life offers. Read more to learn about what those coping skills are.
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Whether it’s your first semester of college or your last one, it is common to feel stressed as assignments and responsibilities build up over the course of the semester. You may feel overwhelmed, spread too thin, and exhausted, without much time to practice self-care. There are several strategies that can help you in preparing for and getting through these difficult periods. Repose therapists can help you with these methods and more to manage college stress and other challenges.
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College is an exciting time. You’re tasting a sense of freedom and independence for the first time. It’s a time to grow and develop outside of the environment you grew up in. However, many college students experience a sense of “culture shock” when they enter campus life. They are adjusting to roommates, increasing school work, changes in academic performance, new friendships, relationships, and so much more. If you’re an international student, that may come as a double "cultural shock". You’re becoming accustomed to college and the US for the first time perhaps. This can cumulatively take a toll on your mental health and leave you struggling to move forward. At Repose Therapy, we see the magnitude of the many challenges you face. Whether you’re at NYU, Columbia, FIT, Sarah Lawerence, Barnard, SVA, Julliard, or Yeshiva, online therapy is a great place to start to get that extra support.
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Whether it’s your first day of college or the beginning of your senior year, the start of a new academic year can come with a lot of overwhelming thoughts. It is important to acknowledge those thoughts but keep an open mind, and thus, there can be a world of new experiences on the horizon.
- Ava Kaplan, LMSW