I just can't get over my awful homesickness

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I have often written about separation ba href=/anxiety/a/b in young children who start nursery and for a while show distress when left in the new environment.

Often their tears are exacerbated by the response of their adult carer who may show anxious ambivalence about leaving them when upset.

I am not saying that you are similar to a young child — but you are experiencing separation ba href=/anxiety/a/b that is very similar, and this is OK because you are going through a major life transition.

Transition times in life are often stressful.

This is only compounded by a sense that you are too old to be feeling this way and should “pull yourself together”.

Nonsense: leaving home is so very hard (your parents are probably feeling this as much as you are), and I think you will see this in the behaviour of your fellow students, many of whom are coping with their homesickness by drinking and partying.

Do not feel bad about feeling like this.

Talk to those you trust and love.

There will also be a student counsellor on your campus and I would book some sessions.

Set yourself some small but achievable goals; doing this will also show you that you can master the feelings.

Another technique is to set specific times to phone home and try to put a boundary around the contact so it doesn’t bleed into times when you could be developing new relationships.

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