Personally, I don’t care about the youth becoming anxious. I don’t have kids and all these supposedly anxious, lost, young men who have it hard today are the same morons I see every day who drive around in their cars like it’s a weapon and aggressively charge everywhere trying to overpower me or something. I don’t need them and I don’t like 95% of them. And the women are imitating the men so it’s impossible to relax while I’m driving because there’s always some idiot ready to play upon my weaknesses.
They all seem (or act) happy to me, they made their beds; let them lay in it.
I grew up in the 1970’s, looks like we were the last mentally healthy generation.
My kid and her friends generally avoid drinking to the point where bars have started to offer non-alcoholic options to keep Gen Z coming in. I know my daughter is a careful driver (having an insurance agent for a dad helps there?) She’s consciously using her phone less and is actually moving back to some older, analong tech that I won’t bother with to cut down on her screen time.
Seems like she and most of her friends I know have their heads screwed on right. I can also tell you as a former 4H leader and archery coach that most of the kids I encountered were decent enough, they were just learning and bumping their way through things as we all have to as we become adults.
Yes, I understand your point of view. But we’re in very different positions. And I’m no saint but I’m not into making other people miserable or out to prove something by putting other people down.
he talking about the 2 years before the dumb and smart phones came out.
I read this book called hold on to your children when I was around 35. And it made sense to me. Society seems to be peer oriented to me and not oriented by parents. Kids have to go to school and leave there parents at such a young age. Kids become more oriented with their peers then parents. I saw this in myself. I want to be more oriented with my parents. I still feel so disoriented with them. They had issues but my mom held on for the sake of me and my sister. Things are working out. I blamed them forever for not raising me right. But my blame was coming from what I saw in my peers who I thought I had total freedom with them and not my parents. I became totally anxious and anxiety still is in me today. I still have so much disorientation in life and anxiousness because I thought society does not value or teach us to be friends and soul mates with our parents. I still have so much anxiousness with myself and society and my parents. The world is set up to go to school and work and have friends and relationships. Before social media I hung out with peers and became disoriented and anxious with my parents.
Can you imagine how ‘squeaky clean’ you have to be in the online world to avoid being teared down or cancelled?
Like the bad parts of what famous people have to deal with and none of the benefits
I am glad that I was growing up on the cusp of this revolution
If everything I’d done was documented like that I would never have been able to get past the issues I had or escape my previous iteration
No one really knows the impact long term of this kind of stress and these people are literally lab rats
That is a good point.
How much of this is your symptoms? You tend to think you’re being targetted when you’re not.
I was about 3 or 4 in the seventies. Are you calling me a schizophrenic or something? Just kidding.
I read somewhere (can’t find the link) that the anxious state of the youth today is comparably to 1950’s mental patients.
I think its because of the constant flow of information. Just rattles the ole noggin
Speakin of noggin i could use a big glass of egg nog 
yea, that’s where i’ve landed with this topic. social media is bad in large intakes (obviously) but what is making everyone so anxious is the constant influx of information; there is SO MUCH of it and it is being consumed amazingly quickly. and it never ends. it is flowing neverendingly every single day out of our phones and TVs
What’s depressing youth in my country is that costs are out of control and there is no housing for them now. Social media is how they are fighting back and getting the government’s attention.
I don’t know, a lot of the younger folks on this forum seem to be very level headed
Much more than when I was their age
Many of them seem to be very responsible and have good insight
Something I lacked at their age
Thank you wave, on behalf of all the sensible young people I have to thank you for your kind words 
The teenage years were a very bad time for me. I still struggle to cope with the effects nearly 50 years later. I want far better for today’s teenagers than I ever had.
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