The idea of leaving my own country and loved ones to an unfamiliar place was really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone. I experienced heart palpitations and had many sleepless nights bothered by the thought of change. My reaction to this fear is what Irwin Savodnik a psychiatrist at UCLA and author of the article “All Crisis, All the Time: The American Addiction to Overreaction” would describe my response as an overreaction. Savodnik adds that overreaction illustrates a made-up rationale, which manifests from our emotions and the combination of both exposure and force towards the fear causes people to disconnect from reality and be immersed in their own “world”. By holding on to the fear of changes that “in one way or another, we are
