Characteristics of Quarter-Life Crisis May Include:

• confronting their own mortality
• insecurity concerning ability to love themselves, let alone another person
• insecurity regarding present accomplishments
• re-evaluation of close interpersonal relationships
• lack of friendships or romantic relationships, sexual frustration, and involuntary celibacy
• disappointment with one’s job
• nostalgia for university, college, high school, middle school or elementary school life
• tendency to hold stronger opinions
• boredom with social interactions
• loss of closeness to high school and college friends
• financially-rooted stress (overwhelming college loans, unexpectedly high cost of living)
• loneliness, depression and suicidal tendencies
• desire to have children
• a sense that others are doing better than oneself
• frustration with social skills

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