Playing The Sims 4 Gives Me Anxiety Now

"Simtown15;d-971863" wrote:

When TS4 Discover University came out, I bought it for the new CAS items, which imo are the best in any pack. However, I have an anxiety disorder, and I get triggered very easily. I don’t like sending sims to university, and I didn’t like it in TS3 either, because I prefer family play.

However, whenever I play a YA without sending them to university, a popup appears saying that they should consider further education, and this, for some reason, always triggers my anxiety. The only way I can continue playing the save without anxiety is to send the sim to university, even though I hate the whole thing.

After sending several generations of sims to university, setting the lifespan to long while they were there so they still had time to have a family afterwards, I got so frustrated that I killed off one of my sims so I wouldn’t have to send her to university. I saved over it and kept playing, but seeing her family constantly in tears over her death made me feel like a monster, so I deleted the save, and I haven’t played the game since.

At this point, I feel like I may never enjoy the game again. I don’t want to start a new save because, if I do, I’ll have to send more sims to university. I also don’t want to uninstall University because I like the CAS items. What should I do?!

Sending sims to university is not mandatory. Nothing of consequence is going to happen if you don’t. You can still put them into the career of your choice and have them work their way up the ladder as we always did before. The pop is just kind of mor of a guidance counselor type notification that if you want to send them it’s time to make sure they have their grades and skills in order. You are free to ignore it entirely if you choose and your sim life will go on just as it always have, and your sims can still be safe and content university or no university. ? Please don’t let it upset you or ruin your enjoyment of your game.