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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 [b]listening to it day in and day out is exhausting[/b].[/quote]
It is extremely taxing to be the closest confidant of someone with anxiety, but if you think that’s exhausting, try being in a fight-or-flight mode on a daily basis. Anxiety is accompanied by real physical symptoms. Treatment for her would be a real blessing.

Has she considered a hybrid approach to her studies, where she has a humanities major with a STEM minor? Just one example, but like a major in Public Policy with a minor in Environmental Studies?[/quote]

She actually has considered exactly that but environmental studies is not a field with a lot of solid employment prospects (she's researched it) and she really does not want to teach which seems to be what most end up doing.[/quote]

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