Moving Away From Home Can Feel Like Freedom and Loss at the Same Time
Leaving home can be the thing you wanted and still hurt. Independence and homesickness are not opposites, and missing your old life does…
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Adjustment disorders
5 articles exploring this subject, from Project Semicolon and chapter contributors.
Coming Back After a Mental Health Leave
Returning after a mental health leave can feel less like “going back” and more like walking into a life that kept moving without…
Graduation Can Feel Like Grief and Freedom at the Same Time
Graduation is supposed to be a finish line. It can also be the end of routines, relationships, identities and a version of life…
When Family Expectations Follow You to Campus
Moving away does not automatically make family expectations quieter. Sometimes they get louder through phone calls, grades, money, career plans and the invisible…
When You Don’t Know What You Want to Do With Your Life Yet
College has a remarkable way of asking people who recently needed permission to use the bathroom to explain their five-year plan. Uncertainty is…