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Without the social script previous generations followed - graduate college, marry, raise a family - Ms. “We’ve been constrained by this myth that you graduate from college and you start your life,” she said. Many young people today struggle to afford college or decide not to attend, and the “existential crisis” that used to hit after graduation descends earlier and earlier, said Angela Neal-Barnett, a psychology professor at Kent State University who has studied anxiety in young people. But the generation entering adulthood now faces novel, sometimes debilitating, challenges.

Just like midlife, quarterlife can bring its own crisis - trying to separate from your parents or caregivers and forge a sense of self is a struggle.

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Byock’s practice to outline obstacles faced by today’s young adults - roughly between the ages of 16 and 36 - and how to deal with them. Byock writes in the introduction of her new book, “Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood.” The book uses anecdotes from Ms. “Crippling anxiety, depression, anguish, and disorientation are effectively the norm,” Ms. They were unnerved and unmoored, constantly feeling like something was wrong with them. Satya Doyle Byock, a 39-year-old therapist, noticed a shift in tone over the past few years in the young people who streamed into her office: frenetic, frazzled clients in their late teens, 20s and 30s.