Real Talk: Essays from Real Life, "What do you do when your college student is struggling to get to class?"

12/26/22 • 3 min

When the Anxiety Monster reared his ugly head one morning at college, a student called his mom. In this essay from the CATCH series, In Real Life, she shares their conversation and the one important question she asked to support him in that moment.
You can read this In Real Life Journal post here.
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12/26/22 • 3 min

Parenting the Mental Health Generation - Real Talk: Essays from Real Life, "What do you do when your college student is struggling to get to class?"

Transcript

My college son called this morning with his anxiety soaring. He wasn’t sure he could get to his class.

It would be the first class he’d miss so far this school year.

And, for a kid who spent most of his middle school and high school years struggling to get into school every single day, and experiencing some challenges last year in college attending class, missing a class carries a big burden and PTSD story for both him and me.

I knew in that moment, he wasn’t calling �

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