Millennials Are at Higher Risk for Mental Health Issues. This May Be Why

[rangerrebew]

Millennials Are at Higher Risk for Mental Health Issues. This May Be Why

    January 8, 2018

by Philip Perry
 
Millennials are experiencing higher levels of anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide than generations past. Many reasons have been offered but none definitive, until now. A new study finds that this generation carries much higher levels of perfectionism, and that these elevated expectations may be to blame. UK researchers came to these conclusions, which were published in the journal Psychological Bulletin.

Since the 1980s, governments and their adjacent societies in the US, UK, and Canada, have focused on individual improvement, both in the economic and social sphere. Since then, people in these countries have been working on themselves, forever striving for self-improvement, particularly in the forms of higher educational and career attainment, and better social standing. But what cost comes with putting all that emphasis on individual achievement?

http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/millennials-are-at-higher-risk-for-mental-health-issues-this-may-be-why

[jmyrlefuller]

Well, gee, set up a job market that belittles them as lazy and stupid and sets up barriers no other generation has had to face to entry into a decent career path, and wonder why we have issues!

[Oceander]

Well, gee, set up a job market that belittles them as lazy and stupid and sets up barriers no other generation has had to face to entry into a decent career path, and wonder why we have issues!

You need to read up on some history sparky. 

[ABX]

Interesting conclusion. It flips the notion that millennials are lazy and don't have jobs. Just the opposite, it is because they supposedly are over-achievers and do too much.