Lorraine Alberto and Marianne Ilumba
Post Commencement Stress Disorder (PCSD) is a condition affecting new graduates on facing the task of choosing, changing or pursuing a career beyond the traditional college campus and now amplifies by the variety of how they will now cope to their next chapter in life. Anxiety and stress result from experiencing a mixture of excitement and fear of the unknown. Completing a degree brings both opportunity and insecurity to fresh graduates as they pursue their career.
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In order to identify a person suffering from PCSD, symptoms such as feeling of not in control of one’s life, feeling a lack of support after the commencement, a feeling of failure if the new graduate is unable to find work in their chosen field, sleeplessness and irritability and avoidance of normal daily activities.
In short, graduation can be really stressful even though it is intended to be a momentous time for graduates. Todays younger graduates are being challenged to put their degrees to work in a world experiencing significant unemployment and significant social change especially in the world where there are endless and seamless possibilities. Most of them even had to choose between career or passion. What’s important is that one must take courage despite their difficulty and just trust the process.
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