I can check off almost every bullet on this list. Can anyone else relate?
Characteristics of quarter-life crisis may include:
- feeling “not good enough” because one can’t find a job that is at one’s academic/intellectual level
- frustration with relationships, the working world, and finding a suitable job or career
- confusion of identity
- insecurity regarding the near future
- insecurity concerning long-term plans, life goals
- insecurity regarding present accomplishments
- re-evaluation of close interpersonal relationships
- disappointment with one’s job
- nostalgia for university [1], college [2], high school [3] or elementary school [4] life
- tendency to hold stronger opinions
- boredom with social interactions
- loss of closeness to high school and college friends
- financially-rooted stress (overwhelming college loans, unanticipatedly high cost of living [5], etc.)
- loneliness
- desire to have children
- a sense that everyone is, somehow, doing better than you
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis [6]