u/vareeno

I’m flying a lot over the next two weeks, my last flight being international from Boston to Athens. I know logically that nothing will happen but my anxiety is through the roof. I fly tomorrow morning DIA to MKE which I’m so nervous about. My brother is literally a commercial pilot lol and I’m still so scared of flying, takeoff is my absolute least favorite part i’m always gripping the seat and panicking. If anyone can tell me what exactly happens procedural wise/etc. during takeoff that would be great, or tips that help you stay calm. I hate the feeling of when you’ve just gotten in the air and it feels like you’re falling for a few seconds before it “speeds up” again (idk). I’m fine once we’re in the air and I actually enjoy the descent part, it’s really just takeoff that scares me so bad.

Hi all, i’m a rising senior and have been working on developing my honors thesis for all of junior year. The main project my honors thesis is under is a very niche study (in clinical psych), and I had to scrape papers from all sorts of areas of literature under my advisor’s guidance to formulate some hypotheses for a moderation analysis. My project is at a place where it’s finally ready to be pre-registered, but I just feel so not confident about it. This one grad student I work with who has been helping me with my honors thesis keeps implying that my hypotheses will be wrong, that my literature search is wrong, that I’m using literature in the wrong areas, and just really dampening my confidence; while my main advisor said my work has been great and she’s impressed, that my hypotheses make sense. I’m feeling really down and confused about it all.

Idk what it is but I just feel like a fraud and a failure, like I should be more confident from all of this work I’ve done, but I just feel like I’m doing something wrong. Being a clinical psychologist is my literal dream and I just feel like if my project doesn’t go the way my hypotheses expect it to, then I must’ve done my lit search wrong or not put in enough work, or that I’m not cut out for research.

If anyone else has done/is doing an honors thesis, I would love some words of advice on building up courage or what the process was like for you. I feel so knowledgeable in my topic yet also clueless somehow. I can pull up all sorts of papers to support my hypotheses and speak to the theory my paper is adhering to and soooo much else, but for some reason, even just thinking about my honors thesis gives me so much anxiety, stress, and has been making me feel really down!! Which sucks because I love research and want to be doing research in the broad area my honors thesis is about:(