Timestamps: 1:07 - Be upset about coronavirus 2:06 - Tolerate uncertainty 4:08 - Grieve this loss 5:14 - Struggle strengthens bonds 5:44 - This doesn't take away from everything you've done 6:21 - Learn from setbacks and failures
Here's how to deal with no graduations...... After the crisis is over and it's finally safe again let these kids that's worked so hard have their proms and cap and gown ceremonies. There's no reason why it can't be done. Too expensive to have it indoors? Outdoors on a nice day will work. Costs too much? I bet plenty of parents would be happy to chip in. No clean up crew afterwards? Again I'll bet parents would come through. Or even the kids would help. These kids don't deserve to have the happiest day of their lives so far yanked away from them. It can be done. Just do it. Our kids have earned it !!!!!!!
Linda Cook thank you I really do appreciate this! I’m a senior I’m high school too and I have to say that I am devastated that we didn’t get to enjoy our senior year from Senior ditch day, Prom, Senior Trips and Graduation.
Julio Emmanuel Morales No, a celebration for graduating with honors. Yes, I will have a drink, but I won’t get drunk. The day would have been dedicated to the Lord, my family, and my friends. God bless.
@@themanwithredglasses6206 That's a pretty shallow interpretation of what goes on at college. Mind you this was done over a virus where death tolls were inflated and almost half of deaths were in nursing homes. Don't believe everything the media tells you.
Thanks for making this!❤️ I’m so happy to hear an adult sympathizing with us. So many people have judged the class of 2020 by saying we are selfish and that there are more important things to worry about. Of course I understand what they’re saying, people’s lives are much more important than my prom and graduation ceremony. It’s just extremely disappointing and I think I’m allowed to be upset. I have worked so hard these past four years. The end of senior year was supposed to celebrate that. But my friends and I are already planning our own graduation celebration and prom once everything (hopefully) calms down.
This is the graduation class I have faith in!!! People born in 90's and 2000 have so far been obnoxious, entitled and (a)social media addicts. These graduates are, I hope, the ones that will seek family and camaraderie, will be humble and anti fragile. They will value face to face conversations, hugs, support their troubled community, the rebuilders and the shoulder for their scared seniors. Let Corona not be your enemy but your mentor. May the force be with you and if you feel down just buy one cold Corona beer, get back on your feet and say this moment shall also pass so let's take those lemons and make lemonade. 💪
It’s especially difficult when you’re an international student and you can’t spend the last few months of high school with your friends who you will have to say goodbye to very soon :(
As someone far removed from school experience, I feel really bad for all the grade 12s and college students. I cannot imagine how I would have dealt with this. Really great topic to explore!
Thank you for making this video! After a long university career, I was absolutely crushed when my convocation was cancelled. I am a distance student so I have been excited for a long time about visiting my school in real life and getting the gratifying moment of a formal graduation ceremony. Although I can obviously understand the reason behind the cancellation, I felt so robbed of a monumental moment that so many other people got to experience.
Your video has made me be more positive in life. I am a senior in High school and I am a bit disappointed about everything that has been happening. The class of 2020 has been through a lot, some of us being born on the year of when 911 happened and then this. All we can do is think positive in life and we will get through this. Thank you for your message. 😊
The Governor of Georgia just closed schools for the rest of the school year. We now start back August for the next school year. Graduation is set for Sept.11th here. God bless everyone else who are going through this. One day at a time.
Thank you, I needed this. The last year of highschool, all the thoughts and plans about my future, my application to a university in another country and becoming more independant, etc. All of this is already so stressful and overwhelming without the crisis, even more because I have been struggling with depression for the past years, but you seem to totally understand how this must feel and how to deal with it. You're awesome, thank you =)
Great post I'm definitely sending it to a few people. And I have decided to do a at home ceremony for my daughter with just four of us family members. It's going to be interesting but it will be done. She deserves everything and more but the least I can do is put a speech together and tell her how proud that we all are of her.
Thank you for your comment and condolences! I’m in a much better place now. It’s been more than 10 years since his passing. I miss him every day but do what I can to keep his memory alive.
Hey! I'm a current undergrad psychology student that's a senior and this has helped me beyond what you can imagine. I don't know if it's because it's coming from someone in the same field so it feels like I'm getting advice from one of my professors, but I'm just letting you know that this really means a lot. I had to abruptly move back home to a different state leaving my love and friends behind, and my plans for work and grad school have completely been side swept. But this video gave me a bit of hope, I can't let something take me out this easy. Class of 2020, we're gonna be okay
It's good to hear from an adult that we can be angry. After watching your video I suddenly realized that I...actually...am...angry, at the situation, and I felt battling alone. I wanted to avoid being thrown into nothingness after graduation so much and I prepared to continue studying abroad after this so that this wouldn't happen, but now I have no other choice, but your advice and understanding helps tremendously, thank you!
Thank you for this! It's so upsetting but there really is nothing we can do, or anyone to be angry at. We will all get through this eventually, and if anything at least those experiencing this can relate too.
Hello my name is Corri I am a senior that is currently graduating high school this year like many here. As someone has worked so hard to finally walk down an aisle, I haven't been able to cope with these feelings. I feel rob, hurt, broken, and like my class is trying to be forgotten. Granted I know broken may not fit as many as a week before all this started my best friend of 12 years left me as I was too depressing but I'm not worried about that part right now. I want you to know no matter who is reading this that it is going to be ok, I know it is hard as f right now but we as a whole will make it together. *hugs* it's going to be ok.
Its so interesting, looking back and growing from this experience and entering the workforce, I am told, like you said "worry about today and tomorrow", balance your work life, you shouldn't be over working, take breaks......Working in a fast paced company, I am shocked. The "norms" is to work over 8 hours a day, feeling guilty for taking a break, working day by day is considered lazy, meeting requirements is not exceptional. Its starting to feel like corporate doesn't include health. Im not sure if its just me, but it seems like my generation is just constantly overwhelmed.
I remember just a few months ago hearing about students who wouldn't be allowed to walk the stage if they didn't cut their hair to conform to school dress codes, and now all of that seems so far away. Students might have to do a virtual graduation ceremony, which for some could be a good thing. Regardless, as you said, they earned their degrees and they will find ways to celebrate that works for them. Loved the video! :)
Honestly, since we're missing our grad ceremony we should do one next year on the "anniversary" of our graduation. Or all the 2020 grads should schedule one day where we all graduate together. That way we can celebrate the end of COVID-19 (hopefully) and still get to see our classmates again. At the same time, it's also a chance to not feel pressured to go to grad if you dont like your class. Though also at the same, it would be hard to schedule a ceremony because people's lives will be a lot busier by then. Idk
5:15 it will take many of my friendships away, the ones where i have acquaintances that i see every day and laugh with. we thought we had the rest of the year to say our goodbyes to highschool and our whole public school experience, but now it’s all gone. abruptly. oof i’m a mess. i have no routine anymore and it’s messing with me.
I wish I had seen this a few months ago! Just started watching your videos, i hope to be a future psychologist too! I recently "graduated" college in May and it's still been hard coping with the new changes. The initial shock is gone but now the transition to jobs and further schooling is much more difficult for us now during the pandemic! It's almost as if we are in a middle area, where we feel we never got the validation of graduating, yet we don't feel like we could go back.
The uncertainty is the worst part. In the Netherlands, we have final exams you need to pass to be able to graduate and those are nationally planned at certain dates and times. We don't know if they will happen as planned. There are also no alternatives planned yet. And that is the worst part, not knowing how to proceed
I absolutely agree! The challenge here is dealing with your worries. Unfortunately, this is a rapidly developing situation. Our worries won't make it resolve any faster. The best we can do is take care of ourselves now and wait to see how things will resolve themselves. There will be a path forward, though it won't be revealed for awhile.
@@drali well the uncertainty has been removed, the exams are cancelled and we will graduate (or not) based on the grades we got in our senior year. Not a great solution, but yeah
My GCSE's have been cancelled. It's similar, I suppose. I was going to do two this year (a year early) and then 5/6 next year, to help with the work load. I'm Autistic and I don't know how I'll deal with next year. I'm also really bad with change of plans. I am also devastated because I have worked SO HARD for these exams, and now they've just been cancelled. I never got to say goodbye to my teachers either, as I'm was never going back in September. The uncertainty is terrible, I hate not knowing what's going to happen.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Change and uncertainty is very difficult, even more so if you are on the Autism Spectrum. I’ll have another video out this week about managing these worries. In the meantime, this is a great time to write email letters to your teachers about how much they mean to you.
Thank you so much for this... I would have been graduating from my college this year and starting work which has now all been postponed indefinitely. It is scarier than anything, with all this uncertainty. I had to film my commencement speech early and post it on my TH-cam because that most likely won't happen. But I am hoping for the best. Thank you again.
This is what I needed to hear from someone. It really sucks taking online classes that I had as face-to face. I really enjoyed going to my spch and social psychology class. It's crazy how I went off to spring break and I was working on hw and I made a "To-Do" list for my classes and I had planned to go talk to my psyc prof. and ask for help on a new chapter we were covering and now I can't:((we never know what life can bring to us. 2-3 weeks ago I was sitting in a classroom in college taking notes and now I'm not. We never know what's going to happen next week, or next month.
thanks for this video. I'm graduating from college next week and I'm definitely learning to cope with the uncertainty. I've found talking with friends really helps
I can completely relate to this. Actually as per the schedule Tomorrow all my exams were supposed to end, but now they're postponed to when... no one knows. This isn't as scary to me as thinking of where I would be next year and if I'll even get admission or have to wait for a few months. Yet it helps me to know that we all had plans and now no one knows what's gonna happen to them! So basically we're all together and it affects everyone in their one way. Thanks a lot for this video Dr Ali.
Look at it this way you get another year to be a senior and do things right yeah give him some hope give me another reason to be let down if it doesn't happen
I'm graduating this 2020. This pandemic has added so much pressure. No graduation ceremony for me and i'm ok with this. But it still sucks. It doesn't feel like an achievement lol. Just another day.
My A levels got cancelled ( the test you do to get into uni in England ). Everyone is very stressed. Teachers have to jel together course work ( If you have it ) , mock test grades , predicted grades and what they think you will get to give you a grade. It’s a very confusing time ON TOP OF THAT I was organising the prom so it’s just like urgh. But I love my generation and year we are so supportive of each other. It’s weird , it’s challenging and confusing but we go through it together. In my school most students don’t trust the teachers and our last day wasn’t the best but it is what it is. Hopefully I get into uni, I’m applying for psychology degree. :) love the video encouraged me so much :)
Just finished my MS Community Trauma Counseling.. I can assure everyone my cohort is grieving no graduation no honor award.... IT SUCKS My advice Feel what you're feeling! Also, know you will/we will get through THIS!
im still a little bitter that states for NJ track back in my junior/senior years were the same day as my proms lol ... granted, there are worse things then having to choose between two great options =))
Honestly it sucks that we wont have the prom or graduation we dreamed. What sucks more is keeping in touch with colleges. I think its ridiculous how i had to sign up for classes over the phone and everything! 😔😔
This video was really helpful! This whole situation is just so stressful and will have an impact on my degree (apparently lab work at home is not recommended 😉). I was actually also wondering if you had any tips to stop clenching your jaw? The extra stress and spending all of my work day at my computer has really aggravated it 🙃
I'm trying so hard to cry about all of my efforts being for nothing, but I just feel empty. I grew up with autism and depression, my mother had suicidal tendencies, my parents divorced, I got a new mother, she threw me and my dad out on the street, I even had a temporary psychotic break in middle school. I had to go through all of this while I was also having to deal with all of the useless obstacles of school. I went to school and no one talked to me, I went to special ed school for the first half of my high school career, where I was learning multiplication, and then I went back to mainstream school where I was expected to know calculus. I went through so much, and all for a pat on the goddamn back. Tomorrow, I'll get on the computer, do my English test, and then that's it. 18 years of struggle, of loneliness, of unimaginable stress, of growth. And that's where it ends. Not on a big stage with everyone I love cheering me on. Just me. In my room. Sitting at my desk. No cheering. No orchestra. Just me. In my room. Alone....
Here in egypt in last year collage they want us so badly to do the usual exams at 1/7 and we don’t know how they are thinking .. but the younger ones had researches instead for exams except for us .. & really there is no motivation at all to start studying in these circumstancec and they don’t listen to us at all ..they want it so badly🤦🏻 As if the younger ones will catch the disease but we are anti virus🤦🏻.. It is really disappointing here in egypt .. the exams is much more important than our health for them.. we “ the seniores “ were the most year deserves something instead of exams because we were waiting for so much time to be free .. but i know that god will solve it 🤎💔 We don’t know how we gonna go for exams with these huge numbers of corona cases recorded every day .. also the coming is much worse than nowadays
Good thing in Israel we have 3 years of mandatory military service. Although I would prefer going to college directly after school, it does give one time to stop our life race
Social interaction is overrated. I'm in my final year of university and honestly I love this! It's such an exciting and entertaining time. Not to mention I won't need to worry about any useless social obligations like going to convocation.
Heyya... Currently I'm doing my bachelor degree in Psychology and need some help in choosing topic for my Final Year Project it would be helpful if u can suggest me any so i could search more on it.
me, a social hermit, actually kinda happy that i won't have to attend my graduation and suffer through lonely awkward OuO🌸 plus i filed official charges against my profs for plagiarizing my work and im scared they might physically threaten or kill me jfjdnfnfkfnjf
when you have an entire immediate and extended family full of ego and narcissistic driven people whose only purpose in life is to secure a marriage and high paying job that is societally acceptable, it's hard to tell yourself that life and career is about "failing and learning from failure over & over again." Not a very appealing psychological healing technique to remind yourself of and work on when everyone around you is saying that all that matters in life is money. I wish that things will get better for anyone reading that can relate...
Timestamps:
1:07 - Be upset about coronavirus
2:06 - Tolerate uncertainty
4:08 - Grieve this loss
5:14 - Struggle strengthens bonds
5:44 - This doesn't take away from everything you've done
6:21 - Learn from setbacks and failures
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Here's how to deal with no graduations...... After the crisis is over and it's finally safe again let these kids that's worked so hard have their proms and cap and gown ceremonies. There's no reason why it can't be done. Too expensive to have it indoors? Outdoors on a nice day will work. Costs too much? I bet plenty of parents would be happy to chip in. No clean up crew afterwards? Again I'll bet parents would come through. Or even the kids would help. These kids don't deserve to have the happiest day of their lives so far yanked away from them. It can be done. Just do it. Our kids have earned it !!!!!!!
Linda Cook Thank you
- From a senior student
Linda Cook thank you I really do appreciate this! I’m a senior I’m high school too and I have to say that I am devastated that we didn’t get to enjoy our senior year from Senior ditch day, Prom, Senior Trips and Graduation.
Your so pure thank you🙏❤️
Linda Cook Our school is scheduled to do it on July 24th, it better stay that way!!!
Raven 619 Ahhhh! I just wish everyone did what they were supposed to do and we wouldn’t have gone this far!
As a member of high school class of 2020 I feel this
jponzy You would probably have to get a GED later since graduation is cancelled.
Dennis Esguerra most of us are doing online school so we’ll be getting our diplomas, just no ceremony like we originally planned
I feel this man senior year getting stripped away sucks a$$
as i !
This is such a bummer for any 4-year student. They basically lose out on 2-4 months of their college experience.
I know, being forced to leave the campus and go online, I can’t imagine the disruption and loss 😞
The Psych Show me
Miss out on what have sec, drink, party?
This is why things happen to humanity because they are self conseided and always destructive
Julio Emmanuel Morales No, a celebration for graduating with honors. Yes, I will have a drink, but I won’t get drunk. The day would have been dedicated to the Lord, my family, and my friends. God bless.
@@themanwithredglasses6206 That's a pretty shallow interpretation of what goes on at college. Mind you this was done over a virus where death tolls were inflated and almost half of deaths were in nursing homes. Don't believe everything the media tells you.
Cries myself to sleep every night I'm so sick of this
Thanks for making this!❤️ I’m so happy to hear an adult sympathizing with us. So many people have judged the class of 2020 by saying we are selfish and that there are more important things to worry about. Of course I understand what they’re saying, people’s lives are much more important than my prom and graduation ceremony. It’s just extremely disappointing and I think I’m allowed to be upset. I have worked so hard these past four years. The end of senior year was supposed to celebrate that. But my friends and I are already planning our own graduation celebration and prom once everything (hopefully) calms down.
This is the graduation class I have faith in!!! People born in 90's and 2000 have so far been obnoxious, entitled and (a)social media addicts. These graduates are, I hope, the ones that will seek family and camaraderie, will be humble and anti fragile. They will value face to face conversations, hugs, support their troubled community, the rebuilders and the shoulder for their scared seniors. Let Corona not be your enemy but your mentor. May the force be with you and if you feel down just buy one cold Corona beer, get back on your feet and say this moment shall also pass so let's take those lemons and make lemonade. 💪
But i want a graduation ceremony :'(
Cimy i feel you ))));
Cimy We all do. It’s so stupid how one disease takes away everything.
😭😭😭
Im crying
@@ThunderBuddy29 China must pay for all of this
It’s especially difficult when you’re an international student and you can’t spend the last few months of high school with your friends who you will have to say goodbye to very soon :(
As someone far removed from school experience, I feel really bad for all the grade 12s and college students. I cannot imagine how I would have dealt with this. Really great topic to explore!
variant it really sucks
Thank you for making this video! After a long university career, I was absolutely crushed when my convocation was cancelled. I am a distance student so I have been excited for a long time about visiting my school in real life and getting the gratifying moment of a formal graduation ceremony. Although I can obviously understand the reason behind the cancellation, I felt so robbed of a monumental moment that so many other people got to experience.
interesting topic that i hadnt considered. stay safe, all. and congrats to all the 2020 grads. rock on!!
CLASS OF 2020 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Your video has made me be more positive in life. I am a senior in High school and I am a bit disappointed about everything that has been happening. The class of 2020 has been through a lot, some of us being born on the year of when 911 happened and then this. All we can do is think positive in life and we will get through this. Thank you for your message. 😊
I am a senior in highschool and I am very saddened.
The Governor of Georgia just closed schools for the rest of the school year. We now start back August for the next school year. Graduation is set for Sept.11th here. God bless everyone else who are going through this. One day at a time.
Thank you, I needed this.
The last year of highschool, all the thoughts and plans about my future, my application to a university in another country and becoming more independant, etc.
All of this is already so stressful and overwhelming without the crisis, even more because I have been struggling with depression for the past years, but you seem to totally understand how this must feel and how to deal with it. You're awesome, thank you =)
Yep. Class of 2020 college here. Sooooo sad.
I don’t know how I’ll get employed, or if I will get to see my friends again.
Same. I'm so worried about my future career.
Great post I'm definitely sending it to a few people. And I have decided to do a at home ceremony for my daughter with just four of us family members. It's going to be interesting but it will be done. She deserves everything and more but the least I can do is put a speech together and tell her how proud that we all are of her.
From one member of the graduating class of 2020 to many others, CONGRATULATIONS! WE DID IT!!!
Thank you for this! I needed it. I’m so sorry to hear about your brother.
Thank you for your comment and condolences! I’m in a much better place now. It’s been more than 10 years since his passing. I miss him every day but do what I can to keep his memory alive.
Ditto. My heart goes out to you and yours, always.
Hey! I'm a current undergrad psychology student that's a senior and this has helped me beyond what you can imagine. I don't know if it's because it's coming from someone in the same field so it feels like I'm getting advice from one of my professors, but I'm just letting you know that this really means a lot. I had to abruptly move back home to a different state leaving my love and friends behind, and my plans for work and grad school have completely been side swept. But this video gave me a bit of hope, I can't let something take me out this easy. Class of 2020, we're gonna be okay
It's good to hear from an adult that we can be angry. After watching your video I suddenly realized that I...actually...am...angry, at the situation, and I felt battling alone. I wanted to avoid being thrown into nothingness after graduation so much and I prepared to continue studying abroad after this so that this wouldn't happen, but now I have no other choice, but your advice and understanding helps tremendously, thank you!
I was planning on raising my grades on March BUT NOW IDFK IF IM GONNA GRADUATE 😭 IM PANICKING YO
Bored Bored bored whatever online work they give make sure to do it its the only way to make up
I only have 4 days left to submit work for the final time and I'm only passing one class😭😭😭 senior in high school
Thank you for this! It's so upsetting but there really is nothing we can do, or anyone to be angry at. We will all get through this eventually, and if anything at least those experiencing this can relate too.
Hello my name is Corri
I am a senior that is currently graduating high school this year like many here. As someone has worked so hard to finally walk down an aisle, I haven't been able to cope with these feelings. I feel rob, hurt, broken, and like my class is trying to be forgotten. Granted I know broken may not fit as many as a week before all this started my best friend of 12 years left me as I was too depressing but I'm not worried about that part right now. I want you to know no matter who is reading this that it is going to be ok, I know it is hard as f right now but we as a whole will make it together. *hugs* it's going to be ok.
Not a psych graduate, but graduated and applying for jobs in quarantine. 😅
My first Skype application meeting is tomorrow 😝
Good luck on the meeting! One day we will all get back to some form of our normal routines.
Good luck, all the best 👍
@@amalibrahim9143 Thanks :)
Best of luck!
@@kait3863 Thanks! It went fine (I think)
whoop whoop 2020 bb (high school senior here, so sad)
Its so interesting, looking back and growing from this experience and entering the workforce, I am told, like you said "worry about today and tomorrow", balance your work life, you shouldn't be over working, take breaks......Working in a fast paced company, I am shocked. The "norms" is to work over 8 hours a day, feeling guilty for taking a break, working day by day is considered lazy, meeting requirements is not exceptional.
Its starting to feel like corporate doesn't include health. Im not sure if its just me, but it seems like my generation is just constantly overwhelmed.
POV: you're watching this as a 2021 college grad and you've been in the pandemic for a year now
I remember just a few months ago hearing about students who wouldn't be allowed to walk the stage if they didn't cut their hair to conform to school dress codes, and now all of that seems so far away. Students might have to do a virtual graduation ceremony, which for some could be a good thing. Regardless, as you said, they earned their degrees and they will find ways to celebrate that works for them. Loved the video! :)
I was gonna skip graduation but i feel bad for everyone who feels like they're missing out.
This video really helped me manage my anxiety about my future, as I am planning to start my PsyD in the Fall and migrate to the US. Thanks doc!
So glad to hear it helped!!!
Honestly, since we're missing our grad ceremony we should do one next year on the "anniversary" of our graduation. Or all the 2020 grads should schedule one day where we all graduate together. That way we can celebrate the end of COVID-19 (hopefully) and still get to see our classmates again. At the same time, it's also a chance to not feel pressured to go to grad if you dont like your class. Though also at the same, it would be hard to schedule a ceremony because people's lives will be a lot busier by then. Idk
5:15 it will take many of my friendships away, the ones where i have acquaintances that i see every day and laugh with. we thought we had the rest of the year to say our goodbyes to highschool and our whole public school experience, but now it’s all gone. abruptly. oof i’m a mess. i have no routine anymore and it’s messing with me.
Thank you so much for this message!! It’s much needed
So happy to hear it resonated with you!
Straight up I feel very mad with how class of 2020 is affected. It’s always this class that has a setback and this just brought me down even more
I wish I had seen this a few months ago! Just started watching your videos, i hope to be a future psychologist too! I recently "graduated" college in May and it's still been hard coping with the new changes. The initial shock is gone but now the transition to jobs and further schooling is much more difficult for us now during the pandemic! It's almost as if we are in a middle area, where we feel we never got the validation of graduating, yet we don't feel like we could go back.
The uncertainty is the worst part. In the Netherlands, we have final exams you need to pass to be able to graduate and those are nationally planned at certain dates and times. We don't know if they will happen as planned. There are also no alternatives planned yet. And that is the worst part, not knowing how to proceed
I absolutely agree! The challenge here is dealing with your worries. Unfortunately, this is a rapidly developing situation. Our worries won't make it resolve any faster. The best we can do is take care of ourselves now and wait to see how things will resolve themselves. There will be a path forward, though it won't be revealed for awhile.
@@drali well the uncertainty has been removed, the exams are cancelled and we will graduate (or not) based on the grades we got in our senior year. Not a great solution, but yeah
My GCSE's have been cancelled. It's similar, I suppose. I was going to do two this year (a year early) and then 5/6 next year, to help with the work load. I'm Autistic and I don't know how I'll deal with next year. I'm also really bad with change of plans. I am also devastated because I have worked SO HARD for these exams, and now they've just been cancelled. I never got to say goodbye to my teachers either, as I'm was never going back in September. The uncertainty is terrible, I hate not knowing what's going to happen.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Change and uncertainty is very difficult, even more so if you are on the Autism Spectrum. I’ll have another video out this week about managing these worries. In the meantime, this is a great time to write email letters to your teachers about how much they mean to you.
Thank you so much for this... I would have been graduating from my college this year and starting work which has now all been postponed indefinitely. It is scarier than anything, with all this uncertainty. I had to film my commencement speech early and post it on my TH-cam because that most likely won't happen. But I am hoping for the best. Thank you again.
Class of 2021 punching the air rn
This is what I needed to hear from someone. It really sucks taking online classes that I had as face-to face. I really enjoyed going to my spch and social psychology class. It's crazy how I went off to spring break and I was working on hw and I made a "To-Do" list for my classes and I had planned to go talk to my psyc prof. and ask for help on a new chapter we were covering and now I can't:((we never know what life can bring to us. 2-3 weeks ago I was sitting in a classroom in college taking notes and now I'm not. We never know what's going to happen next week, or next month.
Having a fixed yet uncertain routine is how life flows for some of us... I think.
Another great video as always. 👍🏾👍🏾
All the best!
Thank you! Developing a new routine is one of the biggest challenges of this crisis.
@@drali You're most welcome Doctor. 🙂
We all will need to be more patient and positive.
thanks for this video. I'm graduating from college next week and I'm definitely learning to cope with the uncertainty. I've found talking with friends really helps
I can completely relate to this. Actually as per the schedule Tomorrow all my exams were supposed to end, but now they're postponed to when... no one knows. This isn't as scary to me as thinking of where I would be next year and if I'll even get admission or have to wait for a few months. Yet it helps me to know that we all had plans and now no one knows what's gonna happen to them! So basically we're all together and it affects everyone in their one way. Thanks a lot for this video Dr Ali.
Absolutely! We are all in this together. No one knows. We have to take care of ourselves and trust that some path forward will be revealed in time.
Look at it this way you get another year to be a senior and do things right yeah give him some hope give me another reason to be let down if it doesn't happen
I'm graduating this 2020. This pandemic has added so much pressure. No graduation ceremony for me and i'm ok with this. But it still sucks. It doesn't feel like an achievement lol. Just another day.
My A levels got cancelled ( the test you do to get into uni in England ). Everyone is very stressed. Teachers have to jel together course work ( If you have it ) , mock test grades , predicted grades and what they think you will get to give you a grade. It’s a very confusing time ON TOP OF THAT I was organising the prom so it’s just like urgh. But I love my generation and year we are so supportive of each other. It’s weird , it’s challenging and confusing but we go through it together. In my school most students don’t trust the teachers and our last day wasn’t the best but it is what it is. Hopefully I get into uni, I’m applying for psychology degree. :) love the video encouraged me so much :)
No one knows how this will play out but there will be a path forward for you. It might not look the way you imagined it, but the path will be there.
The Psych Show excited for the future not afraid of it ✌️
Worst of all. I miss all my friends and teachers 😖
I was graduating middle school in 2020 and I was super upset. I can only imagine how I would have been if it was my high school graduation.
I’m a senior now and it’s not looking good. This absolutely sucks
Just finished my MS Community Trauma Counseling.. I can assure everyone my cohort is grieving no graduation no honor award.... IT SUCKS
My advice Feel what you're feeling! Also, know you will/we will get through THIS!
im still a little bitter that states for NJ track back in my junior/senior years were the same day as my proms lol ... granted, there are worse things then having to choose between two great options =))
That would have annoyed me too!
Honestly it sucks that we wont have the prom or graduation we dreamed. What sucks more is keeping in touch with colleges. I think its ridiculous how i had to sign up for classes over the phone and everything! 😔😔
This video was really helpful! This whole situation is just so stressful and will have an impact on my degree (apparently lab work at home is not recommended 😉). I was actually also wondering if you had any tips to stop clenching your jaw? The extra stress and spending all of my work day at my computer has really aggravated it 🙃
Great video, thank you,I'm definitely trying....
Thank you!!!
this helped me so much. thank you.
My graduation got cancelled :(
Nice video. While I'm in purgatory waiting to see if I can start grad school, I'm going to try and start an job at a mental health hospital
One way or another, we are all in waiting period right now. It’s the best thing we can do to save lives. One day life will return back to normal.
Thank you for this, really needed this 🤩BTW I'm big fan of your work
#DADLIFE Rocks :D
Finished uni, I get my degree posted to me. Im gutted
Thank you
I'm trying so hard to cry about all of my efforts being for nothing, but I just feel empty. I grew up with autism and depression, my mother had suicidal tendencies, my parents divorced, I got a new mother, she threw me and my dad out on the street, I even had a temporary psychotic break in middle school. I had to go through all of this while I was also having to deal with all of the useless obstacles of school. I went to school and no one talked to me, I went to special ed school for the first half of my high school career, where I was learning multiplication, and then I went back to mainstream school where I was expected to know calculus. I went through so much, and all for a pat on the goddamn back. Tomorrow, I'll get on the computer, do my English test, and then that's it. 18 years of struggle, of loneliness, of unimaginable stress, of growth. And that's where it ends. Not on a big stage with everyone I love cheering me on.
Just me.
In my room.
Sitting at my desk.
No cheering.
No orchestra.
Just me.
In my room.
Alone....
I appreciate you so much.
I appreciate your support!!!
I think the class of 2020 will be the only class that will not have an actual ceremony
What about the eighth graders. We were graduating too! :(
YES I FEEL SO SAD
thank you, i needed to hear this today
I feel sad I didn’t even ask my crush anything 😓😑
Graduated college , so stressed I’m gona puke
I’m still sad🙃😭
Any 2021 graduates who have been to school for a total of 3 weeks this whole year and now their exams and graduation are canceled? Yay us I guess
Here in egypt in last year collage they want us so badly to do the usual exams at 1/7 and we don’t know how they are thinking .. but the younger ones had researches instead for exams except for us .. & really there is no motivation at all to start studying in these circumstancec and they don’t listen to us at all ..they want it so badly🤦🏻
As if the younger ones will catch the disease but we are anti virus🤦🏻..
It is really disappointing here in egypt .. the exams is much more important than our health for them.. we “ the seniores “ were the most year deserves something instead of exams because we were waiting for so much time to be free .. but i know that god will solve it 🤎💔
We don’t know how we gonna go for exams with these huge numbers of corona cases recorded every day .. also the coming is much worse than nowadays
Yo our school is doing a social distancing graduation
The saddest thing is that he needs redo this video a year later
Good thing in Israel we have 3 years of mandatory military service. Although I would prefer going to college directly after school, it does give one time to stop our life race
Im really disappointed I wont get to experience prom or graduation :( uguhuugh ;_;
The government is making things worse.
We need less government spending, less regulations & less taxes
yes
Honestly I just want my diploma.....no extra shit
Social interaction is overrated. I'm in my final year of university and honestly I love this! It's such an exciting and entertaining time. Not to mention I won't need to worry about any useless social obligations like going to convocation.
Heyya... Currently I'm doing my bachelor degree in Psychology and need some help in choosing topic for my Final Year Project it would be helpful if u can suggest me any so i could search more on it.
It was sad going to my last class of university without knowing it was going to be the last one.... #PsyMajor
Was the use of the word shit necessary? I wanted to show this to my high school students.
I’m a fresh man🤦🏻♀️ why why I’m doing and assignment about this
Laugh in class of 2019
me, a social hermit, actually kinda happy that i won't have to attend my graduation and suffer through lonely awkward OuO🌸
plus i filed official charges against my profs for plagiarizing my work and im scared they might physically threaten or kill me jfjdnfnfkfnjf
when you have an entire immediate and extended family full of ego and narcissistic driven people whose only purpose in life is to secure a marriage and high paying job that is societally acceptable, it's hard to tell yourself that life and career is about "failing and learning from failure over & over again." Not a very appealing psychological healing technique to remind yourself of and work on when everyone around you is saying that all that matters in life is money. I wish that things will get better for anyone reading that can relate...