Is it normal to be depressed before going to college?

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I've been trying hard to transfer to a good school that's not around where I live and I got it. Its 3 hrs away but the problem is I, along w others I'm sure, feel that I'm not ready to live long distance. But you gotta start somewhere right ? I want to leave in order to develop you know for my own good and grow independent which I think meeting new pple from a different place will help me more. But in reality, I'm terrified but less than excited. It can either go incredibly right or just completely wrong. I can go to a school here near by and live w my parents and all but everyone here goes there so I wanna look like I achieved more than that and that I can. But then there's the distance thing, it's what I wanted but I'm scared I'll suffer without home, if I get depressed, which I do a lot, I can't just go home and relax. I don't know what to do, stay nearby or go away like I planned to.

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  • Ryan556
    11 years ago

    I was scared and all that crap when I went to collage cause one friend was going here another there and I was moving it just got me upset

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  • intellectuallychallengedmaybe
    11 years ago

    by the way, its normal.

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  • intellectuallychallengedmaybe
    11 years ago

    anytime you make a big life change sometimes feelings like depression sprout. just breathe and know that everything will be ok, becuase you will MAKE IT BE OKAY.

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  • AdamIsaBallah
    11 years ago

    You're just nervous. Within a few days you'll realize how glad you are you did go off on your own.

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  • Musician
    11 years ago

    It's normal, and called "the freshman experience." It's natural to be scared, and to be pleasantly surprised the first weekend when your piss drunk in the dorms with a bunch of great new friends that you've made.

    ENJOY! MAKE IT LAST AS LONG AS YOU CAN!

    Freshman year is the greatest year of college!

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  • Captain_Kegstand
    11 years ago

    Confusion is completely normal, you are trying to leave everything you have ever known, for something huge and new.

    I can only speak from my own experience, but I moved two and a half hours away for my freshman year in college. It was AMAZING! Freedom like I had never experienced before! As long as you are able to keep yourself going to class and focusing on that first, you will be great.

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