Stress may hit you as early as 20

London: Entering your 20s, start to give you nightmares as to what will happen when you leave the comforting life of college, and see yourself on the crossroads, choosing on the right career option and relationship status. Well, welcome to the quarter life crisis. And, according to a new study, young adults are suffering from a quarter-life crisis as they’re forced to make tough decisions about their future.
Coined by Australian psychologists, the term is used to highlight a period of stress experienced by 25 to 35-year-olds.
Being the most distressing time in a person’s life, quarter-life crisis focuses on the often agonising decision of which path to take next. And, this causes maximum stress.
A quarter-life crisis emerges when Generation Y comes to a crossroads and worries about which path to take, rather than letting their lives play out.
According to the Daily Mail, “It is to do with a transitional phase that we all go through between adolescence and adulthood where people are embracing and adapting to various changes that life brings,” said Psychologist Paul Martin.
“Often the expectation is that by 30 you should know who you are, you should have a career, you should have a house and be in a relationship.
“When people give themselves a break and take the pressure off and make that feeling of being trapped go away it becomes a transition as opposed to a crisis,” he stated.
Australian Psychological Society spokeswoman Dr Cindy Nour said she often saw patients in early adulthood with signs of a quarter-life crisis.
“People aged between 20 and 30 years old may be experiencing their first full-time job, first trip overseas, first break-up and with those things comes stress,” she said.

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