Accidents | Addiction |
Aging | Arguments & Disagreements |
Bad Habits | Breakups |
Bullying | Career Setbacks |
Champagne Problems | Debilitating Fears |
Demanding Care Giving | Demanding Responsibilities |
Discrimination | Displaced by War / Conflict |
Divorce | Existential Angst (Feeling That Life Has No Meaning) |
Exposure to Pollution | Facing Disciplinary Actions / Punishments |
Failing a Class / Test / Assignment | Failure to Reach a Goal |
Family Instability | Family Stress |
Financial Hardship | Flunking Out of School (Dismissed From School For Failure) |
Friendship Problems | Ghosted by Someone |
Government Actions (e.g. lockdowns of a city) | Harsh / Unfair Criticism |
Homelessness / Insufficient Housing | Hunger / Lack of Food |
Identity Crisis | Immigration Status (e.g. being deported from a country that you have lived in for a long time) |
Income Insecurity | Injuries |
Insufficient Medical Care | Insufficient Transportation |
Insults & Indignities | Investment Losses |
Lack of Freedom | Lack of Opportunity |
Lack of Parental Support | Lack of Rights |
Legal Issues | Loneliness |
Losing a Job | Loss of Loved Ones |
Low Literacy | Low Quality of Life |
Mental Health Issues | Midlife Crisis |
Missing School / Missing Work / Absenteeism | Natural Disasters |
Obesity | Oppression |
Parenting Problems | Political Instability |
Poor Health | Poor Working Conditions |
Poverty | Project Failure |
Racism | Regretting the Past |
Relationship Stress | Sickness |
Small Business Failure | Social Conflict |
Social Isolation | Social Rejection |
Social Stress | Student Stress |
Substance Abuse | Tax Burden |
Travel Stress | Unable to Pay Bills |
Unemployment | Unfair Treatment |
Vicious Rumors & Misinformation | Victim of a Crime |
Work Stress | Workplace Conflict |
Personal Life
Problems and stresses related to your personal life including social life, sense of identity and development as a person. For example, a disagreement with a friend or a bad habit you'd like to overcome.
Family Situations
Problems between family members or situations that you face together as a family such as chronic illness.
Professional Situations
Situations related to your livelihood such as job or business. This includes things that are making you unhappy in your work and problems that impact your actual income. Professional situations can also be risks such as a project that is running late or layoffs that are pending at your workplace.
School Situations
Problems, challenges and stresses at school including social and academic issues. Generally speaking, school environments put most students under a wide range of pressures to fit in, make friends and get high grades. Where any of this doesn't go well students may feel additionally stressed out.
Financial Situations
Financial stresses, risks and problems that make it difficult to secure the income and savings you need. This can include full poverty and difficulty in securing the basics of life.
Adversity
Deeply entrenched problems that are difficult to solve and problems with high impact to your quality of life and general happiness. This includes systemic problems that face entire groups such as discrimination and individual problems such as an injury.
Summary
The term life situation is often used to indicate a problem, challenge, issue or stress that someone is facing in their life. This can be a personal problem or related to your family, work, school or finances. Some individuals will also face adversity, which is generally a more serious type of life situation that may have high impact or be difficult to solve.
