Posted on 10/15/2016 5:10:11 AM PDT by detective
Infantile skittishness on campus is not confined to just politically correct and so-called diversity issues, as bad as that is. As a recent Wall Street Journal article pointed out, college students are now literally flooding mental-health centers on campus year round for anything and everything.
Here's some of what the Journal found. At Ohio State University, a clinical psychologist holds a well-attended 'Beating Anxiety' workshop twice a week. To defuse anxiety, the students are advised to exercise, get more sleep, and refrain from "catastrophic thoughts" brought about things like an upcoming physics exam or if my friend doesn't text me back right away, does he/she does not like me anymore?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"the Snowflakes will help decide who gets elected, and their bias will always be towards softness, accommodation, wishful thinking, and avoiding conflict and difficult choices at all cost."
Left wing Universities are trying to turn American young people into pathetic, whining crybabies.
If all the rumors about nuclear war turn on to be true, some snowflakes will melt ...
Excerpt ... they don't.
If one of these little turds gets in my face ‘Beating Anxiety’ will get a whole new meaning for them.
If nuclear war many won’t be able to vote (other than their names on rolls recording the dead).
Truer today than ever...no enemy would nuke DC.
What’s a student to do when their anxiety is about being beaten by a cop. The name of the workshop ‘Beating Anxiety’ is a trigger for their anxiety so they can’t attend? I hope they have an ‘Overcoming Triggers’ workshop that snowflake can attend in order to go to the ‘Beating Anxiety’ workshop. /s
But what if their anxiety is over being shot by a police officer (or a homeowner)? Then they'll need a workshop to overcome their fear of "trigger" before they can overcome their fear of "beating" before they can over their anxiety about failing calculus or being ignored by a potential hookup.
What about a nuclear suicide bomber?
And to think that my generation of ‘snowflakes’ hit the beaches at Normandy and Iwo and Inchon. God save the Republic!
Good point on “trigger”.
I think we used to have places with “padded rooms” these people could live until they were ready to live in the real world. Maybe schools should just build special “dorms” where these student can be placed. Add extra security so the students can’t get out and accidentally be exposed to the real world (or expose themselves to the rest of us). Add a major “Doesn’t hurt themself” and they can stay until they “graduate”.
Children used to go outside and do things and learn they could survive. Now adults are too afraid to allow that to happen. Children used to do poorly in school, discover that there were bad consequences (I once spent a whole summer doing math review instead of going to the beach) and decide to work harder. Now parents are so afraid of any bad grade on the record that they make sure the children always get perfect scores.
I hear other parents talking about their children’s homework and how much of it the parents have to do, in first or second grade. The children are exhausted and miserable and being diagnosed with “anxiety” at six years old, the parents are miserable ... but dang it, they’re getting those checks in the box for the System!
Either the parents have to continue doing everything for the child forever, or someday the child is going to fail ... and break.
Wife runs mental health hospitals. The snowflakes are stunning as to what causes them mental health issues. They have zero confidence and are concerned about any “offense” so much that they are frozen from taking any action or even speaking out.
“Parents” have failed to teach their kids. Kids grow up without the try/fail/learn/succeed learning cycle. They are scared to death to fail so they refuse to try. Parents and teachers don’t require they try, to do everything for them instead.
Your wife’s experience shows that the left has succeded in creating privileged Eloi, ripe pickings for predators foreign and domestic. Tempted to call the muzzies the analogous Morlocks, but they produce nothing.
Just like the silly Swedes and Germans with their magical wristbands believing muzzie predators will suddenly turn docile.
It is simpler than that. Political correctness has neutralized their fight or flight.
I remember my growing-up years — 1977 college graduate — as Homework Hell even in grade school.
Summers were fine, but every school year was pretty much a grind. My folks rarely needed to push me, it was just assumed I’d get good grades.
Actually, not being much of an athlete, the only way I could carve out a niche for myself was as the hated “smart kid” in my class.
It’s hard to get nostalgic about my school days, but I do believe I acquired a bit of mental toughness that’s kept me out of trouble in my adult life.
For example, although I’m usually polite and friendly to everyone, I don’t feel any great need for people’s approval, much less intimacy.
But above all, as I start my 60th year, I’m grateful for all the free time I have. Any day without an exam or a deadline is a good day.
As Maurice Chevalier sang: “Oh, I’m so glad that I’m not young anymore.”
“Political correctness has neutralized their fight or flight.”
To be even more specific, it has caused them to lose their fight instincts and flee instead.
They aren’t “trying to turn American young people into pathetic, whining crybabies.”, they have already done so.
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