I am 25. I just graduated and still don’t know what to do with my life. I have depression, social anxiety and OCD. I think I might also be really slow, but not sure what that really is. I feel so stuck in my own head, tired, confused. I don’t know what I want to do in the future. A lot of the times it feels like I’m dissociating and being pulled into different directions without own input.

My parents have always been overprotective, strict, old fashioned. They support me financially. They picked my major for me (even though I was interested in studying something else) because they believed it will get me a good paying job, so I can pay my bills (highly understandable). I’m trying to find a job, which I’ve been applying to places so far.

I moved far away for school, which was one of the most refreshing things ever. It is honestly why I wanted to go back to school, so I can be far away from them.

Grad school starts in two months and I feel panicked. I already picked classes.

I feel like an imposter.

I don’t know what to do. What if I don’t get a job in time and I’m stuck with my parents? I feel hopeless.

I want to bring this up to them, but for some reason I feel so compelled not to because I’m afraid of how they might react.