[PGR88]

millennials suffer from anxiety at a much higher rate than generations that preceded them.

Nonsense. previous generations didn't measure for "anxiety" - nor did they try and turn everything into a political/government issue.

[dfwgator]

Carol Beaton, in Psychology Today, says an abundance of choices is stressing young people out: “Paradoxically, our stress befalls the generation with the most optionality yet,” she says. “This blessing could also be our curse.”

Freedom of Choice, is what you've got.
Freedom from Choice, is what you want.

-DEVO

[FreedBird]

They are going to inherit a society of more and more problems if something doesn’t change in the next couple years. It is sad. The country may be too far gone to ever be fixed.

[Iron Munro]

The fist generation raised under a muslim enemy of Americaa as president.

The first generation to have a national debt of more than $160,000 per person.

The fist generation to be taught in schools an colleges that they have the right to not be offended in any way.

[freeangel]

For one thing, most millenials have never been expected to win at anything. Products of trophies for everyone. And no, they are exposed to the real facts of life where you either produce(win) or get a failing grade for real.

[albie]

Millenials are over protected, woefully misinformed, pampered and spoiled. My 32 year old lib nephew was getting his hair washed in the kitchen sink by his Mother when he as 22. He moved out at age 28 after saving enough for a house. Never paid a nickel in rent. Never bought his own car.

[Huskrrrr]

As my Mom used to say:

“We had the Great Depression and a World War that killed 50 million. Quit your whining.”

[ScottinVA]

Abundant choices are stressing these little snowflakes out, because they’re accustomed to adults making all the hard decisions for them. Good God, they’re so uber-sensitive they need “safe places” from even the mildest forms of criticism.

[pepsi_junkie]

I proposed a theory here about how society seems to move in 70 year cycles from crisis to crisis. I called it the 70 year itch and someone pointed out that a rough equivalent theory of an 80 year cycle was laid out in a book called "The Fourth Turning". Cool, let's go with that since it's more laid out.

In that book, there are four discrete generational archetypes (each having primacy for 20 of the 80 years). In the crisis phase, the generation that is in primacy are the so-called "nomads" who grew up in a protected world of relative peace and stability but are forced to mature into pragmatists who navigate society through a crappy crisis. Today that's GenX, back in WW2 it was Truman's generation - the one that preceded the "greatest generation". When the Nomads come to maturity when "Institutions are weak and distrusted, individualism is strong and flourishing". Seems about right, old institutions like the church and the government came to be viewed with skepticism and suspicion by GenX; my generation prefers to go it's own way for the most part. Whatever.

Per this theory the next generation (i.e. the "greatest Generation" of WW2 or the millennials of today) are the "heroes". Here's how they are described: "Heroes grow up as increasingly protected post-Awakening children, come of age as team-oriented young optimists during a Crisis, emerge as energetic, overly-confident midlifers, and age into politically powerful elders attacked by another Awakening."

Basically per this theory GenX is stuck living their best years in a crappy world that they get stuck fixing (admittedly using the millennials as the muscle to make it happen), then the millenials will take it and go forward in peace and prosperity until their own children start to think they are smarter and superior and start to ruin their lives.

So if you buy all that, be content to know that these smug millenials will be mocked and laughed at by their children like the boomers did to theirs.

[JBW1949]

“... permanently sheltered by overbearing parents...”

Now, not only parents, but government as well...In Rhode Island the parents can be fined and charged with a misdemeanor if their “child” goes over a certain distance from the home...

Heard this today on the news...

[pepsi_junkie]

And by the way, adding to my prior post in the 80 year cycle, the article says the current millennial generation has the worst anxiety in “80 years”. Coincidence?

[CodeToad]

First generation not to be disciplined.

First generation to be allowed to act out and have “meltdowns”.

First generation to believe minimums are excellence.

First generation to be awarded “participation trophies” for just trying.

First generation not to keep score.

First generation that thinks what they think is more important than anyone else.

First generation to fail miserably.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Best advice I can give anyone is to make it a point a few hours per day, and even more on weekends....

Just UNPLUG from the interweb. Be around REAL PEOPLE and just LIVE LIFE.

[1Old Pro]

What’s wrong with kids these days?

Too much Ritalin.

[detective]

“Numerous recent studies have shown that millennials suffer from anxiety at a much higher rate than generations that preceded them”

This is total nonsense. Previous generations got up and went to work. On Sunday they went to church. They supported their families and dealt with far more real life anxiety than these little cupcakes.

Millennial are products of the leftist education system and the leftist media. They don't work hard. They don't accept responsibility. They whine about being victims.