Dear Joe:

Welcome back.

The setting of you being a graduate in the university fit you very well, you thrived in that particular setting, but can’t stay there lifetime (unless you get into academia and work there?)

Time to leave and enter a different setting that doesn’t fit you well, not at this point. It is a different setting, one less welcoming, one that is competitive and rejecting. Understandably you don’t like it and you fear getting depressed again.

Is there counseling you can attend at this transitional time at the university or elsewhere? That can be very useful t you.

anita