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Navigating your early 20s is hard, but navigating your early 20s in a pandemic is... something else. While mental health and therapy have become much less taboo over the last decade, the topics people talk about most often are things like trauma, grief, depression and anxiety. But what if something just doesn't feel quite right? We don't talk enough about the emotions that don't feel 'critical,' like what mental health advocate and psychotherapist Divya Robin calls 'emotional growing pains.' What do we call the loneliness and shame that we feel when our friends are at different stages of life than us? How do we deal with the guilt of setting boundaries with loved ones, or moving away from home? How do you sit in the discomfort of realizing the person you thought you wanted to be isn't who you are becoming?
By Anjana, Epsa, and SydneyNavigating your early 20s is hard, but navigating your early 20s in a pandemic is... something else. While mental health and therapy have become much less taboo over the last decade, the topics people talk about most often are things like trauma, grief, depression and anxiety. But what if something just doesn't feel quite right? We don't talk enough about the emotions that don't feel 'critical,' like what mental health advocate and psychotherapist Divya Robin calls 'emotional growing pains.' What do we call the loneliness and shame that we feel when our friends are at different stages of life than us? How do we deal with the guilt of setting boundaries with loved ones, or moving away from home? How do you sit in the discomfort of realizing the person you thought you wanted to be isn't who you are becoming?