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This is probably a generational thing. I’m GenX. Growing up I never heard anyone talk about being depressed, having anxiety, etc. If someone today started tryin
by irrational 4y ago
This is probably a generational thing. I’m GenX. Growing up I never heard anyone talk about being depressed, having anxiety, etc. If someone today started trying to talk to me about mental health issues, I’d probably just have a deer in the headlights look since I have no clue how to respond to that sort of topic.
- kennyloginz 4y agoDefinitely not a generational thing. GenX was defined by expressing depression. Nirvana, nine inch nails, the cure.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoThings present at media does not mean people act like this.
- irrational 4y agoI attended a high school with 4,000 students and had lots of friends and even more acquaintances. I never heard anyone discuss anything mental health related. Ditto at college and graduate school. Ditto in the workplace until within the last decade or so.
- watwut 4y agoThey used alcohol and drugs to deal with those a lot more. Also, they had higher juvenile criminality rates.
- NikolaNovak 4y agoYup; definitely a cultural/generational component (as well as upbringing/personal preference/development); my dad's generation, born and lived in Eastern Europe, and all of them have a physical reaction to breaching certain topics - they will literally push back in their seat trying to physically run away from discussing mental health, inner feelings, social norms & progress, etc :-) I too was born in Eastern Europe but live in Canada now (and for majority of my adulthood). Took me, dunno, 10-15 years to change some of the subtly ingrained cultural perspectives and open up. (I still get a deer in headlights look sometimes, but that's just me and my social awkwardness:)