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    Jerris
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    I don’t know what I’m going to do!! I’m 25, living with my parents, unemployed, with an overdrawn account. Last year, I was working in retail, then I enrolled in an alternative certification program for teaching. I was looking for a teaching job and I eventually found a job last August. While I was teaching, I was suffering from anxiety and stress and it got so bad that I was having panic attacks and I have to see a doctor. I was let go from that job in October. My doctor told me not to look for a job until December, so I’ve been looking for a job; any job, but my search has been completely unsuccessful. On top of that, I’m still paying for the alternative certification program and I’m paying them $450 a month! My mom gave me $1000 for Christmas and that would only help for January and this month, but now my bank account is overdrawn and I had to use most of my savings since October. I just don’t know what I’m going to do. I feel like I’m never going to get out of this situation. I don’t want to have to ask my parents for money, but it seems like I don’t have a choice. I just feel like nothing is going right in my life. I’m going to be 26 in May, I live with my parents, I’m unemployed and finding a job is finding a needle in a haystack, I’m running out of money. I want to teach abroad, but I don’t think that’s going to work at all. I’ve been wanting to teach abroad, but something always gets in the way. The only good thing about my life right now is that I’m seeing a therapist.

    #95423
    Michelle
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    Hi Jerris,

    I have to reply to this because, because it’s like you’re living my life! I’m turning 25 this year, have a graduate degree, and I’m currently in a teaching position wherein I experience anxiety and stress (which sometimes I think is ridiculous! It’s only teaching! Yet most of the time, there are thoughts of ‘what the hell am I doing?’ and ‘I don’t know what I’m doing!’ in my mind, and I get bogged down). I’m worried about money, because this job barely keeps me afloat and I live with my parents. Moreover, when I get anxious and stressed, I end up binge-eating, which is a terrible way to handle anything and makes me feel worse. In all, I feel horrible about myself and want things to change so badly.

    I know I don’t have any solutions here, but I just wanted to say that I can really relate to your situation and that you’re not alone.

    Michelle

    #95563
    Anonymous
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    Dear Jerris:

    When you wrote the post above, it seems to me like you were panicking, getting more and more scared and that state of mind is not the state of mind that gives rise to sensible solutions. So in the current state of your life, in the circumstances you are in it is best to find peace, to accept those circumstances with some equanimity, as in: this is my life, these are my circumstances. I don’t like them but this is… what is. When you panic, it is like you are trying to run away from the circumstances. When you are calm, you can confront these circumstances with your best possible thinking.

    Would you like to share how the visits with the therapist are going? How long? What issues are being addressed? Where is it going?

    Hope you post again!

    anita

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