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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Freshman dd is doing great in her classes, has a good job, things are fine socially, but she is calling me daily with worries about worries small and big: bad day at work, I was so worried about this and that or did I mess up with this and that. She's always trashing her own major (a Humanities one) because she seems to mostly meet STEM kids and she feels inferior to them. Her latest worry is whether to sign up for ROTC because she thinks she'd benefit from having a clear path, but she's also dreading it, went for the tour and was told non-stem means fewer chances...It is never ending. Do kids like this find their way? I don't want to guide her toward one path or another and it's really not my decision, but listening to it day in and day out is exhausting.[/quote]

Was she like this when not in college? If she was, that was when to try to "fix" the worrying. If it's a new thing, suggest her to visit campus health psychology[/quote]

She's an overthinker for sure, but this is really a lot about the future and career path. It's like it's in her head at all times and it colors everything with big questions, then she also sweats the small stuff. In high school she was calmer and not that worried about this but now she feels surrounded by people who have it all figured out (she says) and she compares herself to them and freaks out.[/quote]

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