REBIMEIRIANA

Many of you have asked me why I was MIA the first couple days of this new semester. Well, I’ll tell you. I am diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Last week I had my first anxiety attack in over a year. I guess I had reasons to freak out. I’d been uprooted a lot in the past few months.

I’d been in China last semester, hadn’t had “real” classes since last April, I have a busy sched-ule this semester, I was excited and yet anxious about being with my friends again, moving into Avon house in gray wintery Goshen, and generally being in another new situation.

According to the National Mental Health Association web-site, anxiety disorders affect about 19 million Americans. Anxiety levels with college stu-dents have been rising since the 1950s. In 2000 about seven per-cent of college students experi-enced some type of anxiety dis-order. Women are five times as likely to be susceptible.

In addition, the website states that college students are feeling more overwhelmed and stressed than fifteen years ago, accord-ing to a recent UCLA survey of college freshman. More than 30% of college freshman report feeling overwhelmed a great deal of the time.

22 agustus 2015

18:15:20

/ Jl. Elang VII Blok HG 3 No. 5Bintaro Jaya Sektor 9

/ 088211661616/ rebimeiriana@hotmail.com

Jakarta /15 May 1996 /

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