This is actually a serious one - despite in reality having a PhD and a teaching position I enjoy, I keep having regular dreams about not having passed my A-Levels and being unemployable. This seems to be playing out fears I had at age 18 that are still there in the unconscious.
I am not in any way depressed* but it takes an hour or so after waking to shrug off that shitty pre-waking feeling.
*Depression is relative but I can measure my current mental state by comparison to when I was truly depressed as a teen, and can say this is not depression. Mid-life syndrome, maybe.
I am not in any way depressed* but it takes an hour or so after waking to shrug off that shitty pre-waking feeling.
*Depression is relative but I can measure my current mental state by comparison to when I was truly depressed as a teen, and can say this is not depression. Mid-life syndrome, maybe.
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