It might be completely fine. When I first finished highschool I took a year off and spent the whole year developing my folio for this diploma course I wanted to get into. I ended up getting in, then I got this constant dread, I freaked out and didnt accept the offer. I blamed myself for years after not going, eventually I stopped thinking about it and applied at uni for a different course and started full time when I was 22. It went great and was the best thing I ever did. Turned out that that freak out over the first course I applied for was for nothing, and I did the right thing :)

I think that going back to school could be a very rewarding experience and that some anxiety about it will be natural and inevitable. Anxiety is often the same as excitement, and there's a lot to be excited about. To keep the feelings at a manageable level, it might be helpful to give yourself permission to feel some uncertainty about things...that's perfectly understandable.

Speaking for myself, I didn't go to college until I had been out of high school for years but when I did go, as anxious and scared as I was, I absolutely loved college!!! It was the best thing I ever did. I would have made it a full time career if I could have! I think going to school helps with a lot of our issues. I hope you go back and do what makes you happy! Hugs GB

It could be that your bout of depression and you being in school were just coincidental too. If you fret yourself about it, you'll worry yourself into it being an issue.

There online collage you can do. This way you do not have to leave your house and maybe less axierty for you. I have axierty too and I know it not fun to have.

While going back to school could be the source of great anxiety (I vomited from anxiety before my first class in grad school) it can also have many joys and bring about a new beginning, new start and new friends.

I have found with my mental health issues (Schizoaffective Disorder and anxiety) I can't work but I can go to school I was able to finish an MFA program at CalArts in between hospitalizations and it got my writing career to where I wanted it to be.

Now I can't go back to school for a PhD as I would kind of like to because of my disability student loan forgiveness. If I went back to school I would owe my $100,000 in student loan debt that was forgiven plus the future PhD debt. Not worth it no matter how much I might enjoy it.

If you enjoy computer programming and it leads to serious money, I see no reason to be anxious about it.

Me, except for the young, beautiful women, I hated college, but that's because my degree was in Communications, which was mostly theory and rhetoric, fluff, bullshit that seemed to have no practical application. What I really wanted to do was go to film school and make movies. At 2.6 high school GPA, I didn't have the minimum 3.5 GPA to even consider applying. I wanted to go to USC, where some of my favorite directors as well as other people working in the industry, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, John Carpenter, Walter Murch etc. graduated from.