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Homesickness: how to cope with being away from the nest
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As new freshmen head to class for the first time, many of them are also having to deal with a completely new environment, some living hundreds of miles away from home for what might be the first time in their lives.
But feelings of homesickness are completely normal, and experienced by the vast majority of first-time college students, according to Josh Klapow, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and associate professor at UAB.
“Most students who are homesick feel like they’re embarrassed, they don’t want to say anything, you know, they don’t want people to know,” said Klapow, who noted that somewhere between 60 and 80 percent of new students report feeling homesick.
