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The poll only counts people who talk about it "often or extremely often". It actually seems crazy to me that the number is so high for younger age groups: > A
by themacguffinman 3y ago
The poll only counts people who talk about it "often or extremely often".
It actually seems crazy to me that the number is so high for younger age groups:
> And young adults are more likely to say they often talk about their mental health with close friends: 37% say this, compared with 29% of those 30 to 49 and 14% of those 50 and older.
That's a lot of mental health talk. I suspect you won't see this amount of mental health talk in places with good average mental health.
- mycologos 3y agoI think younger people have a much broader definition of "mental health". Somebody 50+ might say "mental health, like a mental hospital? no thanks", somebody in Gen Z might say "fr fr i always talk about how stressful school is with my homies".
- fragmede 3y agoThe older crowd is much less likely to advertise to one another that they have a shrink, whilst Gen Z is gonna jump on their phone after a session and say "yoooo guess what my therapist told me today" to their group text chat, so I'd say GenZ talks a ton more about mental health than older cohorts, not simply that they have a broader definition.