Well now, the self-esteem emphasis for that generation certainly worked then, didn’t it.
My wife recently started as a mental health counselor at a private university. On her first day she came home amazed at the types of “problems” the kids presented with. Zero coping skills. One night while on call (yes, they have on call counselors) she got a call from a kid who said he couldn’t sleep. She politely told the kid that not falling to sleep is certainly NOT an after-hours emergency, to try some warm milk and call his Mom.
She sees lots of: boyfriend/girlfriend broke up with me, drank too much at a party and slept with some guy who won’t call me back, don’t want to be majoring in “fill in blank” but I’m afraid to tell my parents, roommate issues. She also noted that nearly 100% of the kids she sees admit to smoking pot regularly.