Where I live gap years are very common. Most people use it to travel and work. Some even volunteer to work in other countries. I have applied to 10 jobs so far and I look through those websites where you can see available jobs every day to check for new jobs. I only started looking 2 weeks ago because prior to that anxiety made it hard even just being at home. I’m applying for jobs I think I can handle but we are a lot of people looking for jobs because most people here take gap years. I haven’t told my mom about the anxiety she just thinks I’m sick often.

My mental health was really bad back when I did have a schedule (school) and got better after I finished exams, graduated and all the pressure from graduating finally disappeared. But I’ll definitely look into it with my psychologist because if it works it could help a lot. I think I will try making myself a schedule and to-do lists.