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re: What is it with young kids now having so many “anxiety” issues?
Posted on 7/3/19 at 6:09 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Posted on 7/3/19 at 6:09 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Are you implying the earth is not warming?
It's a naturally occurring phenomenon that has been going on for billions of years (I'm beginning to sound like a broken record), and is not the catastrophe Al Gore and his Practitioners of Doom make it out to be.
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I don't know if it's more of a natural cylce or human intervention, but a thermometer will tell you it's getting hotter.
Temperatures usually rise during the summer.
This post was edited on 7/3/19 at 6:11 am
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Posted on 7/3/19 at 6:10 am to Darth_Vader
It's the water!!
Posted on 7/3/19 at 6:13 am to munchman
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Pain & adversity are life’s greatest teachers......Society now medicates through life struggles instead of teaching perseverance through everyday adversities.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 6:14 am to Darth_Vader
Back to the OP’s question -
People have hinted and talked about it but the main cause is that there has been no significant cultural adversity for half a century.
No Great Depression.
No stock market crash.
No 20% interest rates.
No waiting in lines for gas.
No real world war - just small military actions that drum up pseudo-patriotism (no making light of our servicemen and their huge personal sacrifices)
You can’t learn to categorize the intensity of a worry when you don’t have any worries that are more than a 5/10.
If you want to see anxiety rates drop to where they were 50 years ago, we would have to have about 30 attacks like 9/11 that kill a half a million Americans from the east to the west coast or a complete economic collapse that puts unemployment at 35% for a decade or more.
Then you would not see someone needing a emotional support ferret to take a 30 minute shuttle bus ride to the casino.
People have hinted and talked about it but the main cause is that there has been no significant cultural adversity for half a century.
No Great Depression.
No stock market crash.
No 20% interest rates.
No waiting in lines for gas.
No real world war - just small military actions that drum up pseudo-patriotism (no making light of our servicemen and their huge personal sacrifices)
You can’t learn to categorize the intensity of a worry when you don’t have any worries that are more than a 5/10.
If you want to see anxiety rates drop to where they were 50 years ago, we would have to have about 30 attacks like 9/11 that kill a half a million Americans from the east to the west coast or a complete economic collapse that puts unemployment at 35% for a decade or more.
Then you would not see someone needing a emotional support ferret to take a 30 minute shuttle bus ride to the casino.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 6:14 am to RogerTheShrubber
Yep. There you have it.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 6:16 am to ChenierauTigre
I would throw in a sense of entitlement (you see a lot of it here on the OT) instead of earned achievement/things and individualism.
This post was edited on 7/3/19 at 6:17 am
Posted on 7/3/19 at 6:22 am to SECdragonmaster
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You can’t learn to categorize the intensity of a worry when you don’t have any worries that are more than a 5/10.
So true.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 7:58 am to el Gaucho
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Maybe us millennials would be less anxious if you boomers hadn’t ruined the world for us
I see this being thrown around on here almost daily. What is it that millennials think boomers did that “ruined” the world?
FTR, I’m not a boomer.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:14 am to Paige
Man, I see 5, 6, and 7 of that article every day in family and friends.
5. Kids aren't learning emotional skills.
6. Parents view themselves as protectors rather than guides.
7. Adults don't know to help kids face their fears the right way.
I actually have one family member that does all 10 things. Their children will have a really hard time as adults.
5. Kids aren't learning emotional skills.
6. Parents view themselves as protectors rather than guides.
7. Adults don't know to help kids face their fears the right way.
I actually have one family member that does all 10 things. Their children will have a really hard time as adults.
This post was edited on 7/3/19 at 9:17 am
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:16 am to financetiger
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Two words: SOCIAL MEDIA. Always comparing themselves to others
I was coming to say this. They have access to information we never had growing up and others have access to them like we never had to deal with. Kids are assholes and when you never have a break from the other kids around you it can drive you insane.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:20 am to Darth_Vader
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Why is it that so many young people in their teens & 20s now have “anxiety” to the point it requires professional help? Is the world really that stressful now?
I’m sure this has been said but...
Because being white middle class has no real problems so they have to invent some.
Some kids-teens have true anxiety type issues and you can tell pretty easily.
Many of them have no issues or drama, wish they did, invent it or get caught up willingly in some other drama, and it manifests into some actual mental anguish that follows them around. But if that person find some other outlet or chooses to do something with their time like fish or quilt, then it’s a pretty easy fix.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:25 am to Darth_Vader
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FTR, I’m not a boomer.
Yes you are
You’ve said you were in your 40s before
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:29 am to Darth_Vader
quote:I can't answer your question, but I can tell you that I had anxiety issues as a child, and can't tell you what caused it to this day. I finally got "better" when I was in like 3rd grade or so.
Why is it that so many young people in their teens & 20s now have “anxiety” to the point it requires professional help?
Is the world really that stressful now? I mean, when I was that age we lived in a world where we lived under the constant threat of nuclear Armageddon. But you didn’t see people unable to function because of “anxiety” What’s changed?
ETA: I can also say that I was not, and have never been diagnosed with anxiety. I hadn't thought about it in years, but recently I was talking to my mom and she apologized for not recognizing that I was having anxiety issues and that she didn't get me appropriate help. So I guess part of the issue is that kids probably have been having anxiety issues, it just hasn't always been diagnosed as much as it has been more recently.
This post was edited on 7/3/19 at 9:33 am
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:32 am to Darth_Vader
It's a generational thing that each generation wants our kids to have more than we had and to not have to struggle as hard as we did to get there, but somewhere along the lines, we have lost sight of the reality that our struggles are what make us who we are. Iron isn't sharpened with soft comfortable material. It takes rough circumstances to build character and refine your will, and each generation has given into that comfortable atmosphere progressively until we now have a generation of young adults who were largely never taught how to handle their own emotions and to welcome hardships and see them as a positive challenge to become a better person.
I firmly believe that it's directly correlated to why we have so many school shootings and peer to peer violence problems. it's just a temper tantrum being thrown by a child who has been desensitized to violence and respect for life and not taught how to handle their own emotions.
I firmly believe that it's directly correlated to why we have so many school shootings and peer to peer violence problems. it's just a temper tantrum being thrown by a child who has been desensitized to violence and respect for life and not taught how to handle their own emotions.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:41 am to SECdragonmaster
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No Great Depression.
No stock market crash.
No 20% interest rates.
No waiting in lines for gas.
No real world war - just small military actions that drum up pseudo-patriotism (no making light of our servicemen and their huge personal sacrifices)
I would say 9/11 was a pretty big deal and 08/09 “recession” wasn’t a Great Depression but was still bad.
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If you want to see anxiety rates drop to where they were 50 years ago, we would have to have about 30 attacks like 9/11 that kill a half a million Americans from the east to the west coast or a complete economic collapse that puts unemployment at 35% for a decade or more.
Yea I don’t think that’s how it works as far as dropping anxiety.
In reality kids aren’t much different than they were decades ago. I was a kid in the 80s and I still see kids doing all the same shite we did, mine do also. Other than the occasional helicopters parent you hear about on FB or something I don’t personally know any like that. We still had kids with anxiety in the 80s and my brother still remembers awkward, antisocial, full of anxiety kids in the 70s. Nothings really changed as far as posters here make it out to be. The only thing worse is probably the adults who spend all day on their phones. I know way too many parents and I can’t think of hardly any that won’t whoop their kid’s arse or let them roam around outside all day.
This post was edited on 7/3/19 at 9:42 am
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:43 am to Paige
There are no mental illnesses just the mentally weak ones
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:46 am to SECdragonmaster
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SECdragonmaster
That was one of the dumbest, most Boomer posts I've read on this site.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:55 am to Darth_Vader
social media and mainstream media brainwashing at every opportunity
Posted on 7/3/19 at 9:59 am to Paige
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Can you people not google? Or do you just want answers from a bunch of uneducated assholes who will say the worst about the kids and their parents?
Everything on that list is a direct result of failures by the parents
Posted on 7/3/19 at 10:01 am to el Gaucho
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FTR, I’m not a boomer.
Yes you are
You’ve said you were in your 40s before
So in other words you don’t know what a boomer is I see.
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