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A Blizzard of Snowflakes
American Thinker ^ | October 15, 2016 | Peter Skurkiss

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 ...


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To: Nothingburger
“Oh, I’m so glad that I’m not young anymore.”

LOL - ditto to that!

21 posted on 10/15/2016 8:22:17 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

The Helicopter Generation produced the Snowflake Generation——

Who Knew?????


22 posted on 10/15/2016 8:59:55 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Don Corleone
And to think that my generation of ‘snowflakes’ hit the beaches at Normandy and Iwo and Inchon. God save the Republic!

Posted before, but needs to be posted on every campus - guaranteed to overflow the clinics.


23 posted on 10/15/2016 9:37:59 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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