How Much Anxiety Is Too Much and How Can Millennials Cope With The Struggle?

Millennials are reportedly under more stress than previous generations, according to recent studies. The National Institute of Mental Health estimated that approximately thirty percent of people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine suffer from anxiety. When compared to older acquaintances reports, millennials are also more likely to experience higher degrees of loneliness and social isolation, which leads to an increased risk of self-harm, obsessive behaviors, substance abuse and eating disorders. Here is what went wrong with today’s generation and a proposition on how to fix it.

A Generation Of Overprotected Individuals

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According to experts, millennials are a generation of people who have never actually learned how to cope with stress, because they were shielded from it for the majority of their upbringing. Dr. Peter Gray of Boston College stated that a significant contributing factor is that Millennials were raised by over-protective parents who shielded them from adult-free playtime. It is arguable that with parents always around to break up fights, preventing their kids from getting hurt, and interfering with social environments, children of this generation were not properly taught how to become successful adults.

Being Stressed Is An Important Part Of Growth And Development

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Dr. Karen Cassiday, the president-elect of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, believes that stress is a part of growing. She says, “So many millennials have been raised with the idea that it’s bad to be stressed—that normal events, like final exams, someone not using the proper term for your sexual orientation, roommate issues, or breakups are all too stressful and can’t possibly be conceived of as anything other than the end of the world." The result is a generation of individuals who have never been made to determine how to get through hard times on their own.

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