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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 80 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This seems like more of a Gen X attribute to me. I'm an older millenial, and I know heaps of people my age who go to therapy.

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, this seemed accurate to me - not because millennials don't want to go to therapy, but because they can't afford to.

[–] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 22 points 9 months ago

That's an American thing. Where in from, health insurance covers it completely. But you'll need a while to find a good, available therapist

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah our generation was short of the -68 hippie love generation so we got the sex drugs and rock'n roll decade. Millennials seems so much more at ease with their (bad) feelings.

[–] Monument 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the alternative was to crumble.

I mean, fuck. I was just thinking it through -
In the U.S., Most millennials started out in the wake of the war on drugs and the damage it did to communities. From there, you have the racial tension of the 90’s, the death of truth with Fox News, the rise of school shootings, 9/11, the start of the rightward/authoritarian swing of the U.S., the ‘08 recession, citizens united, loss of democracy, COVID, another recession, inflation, housing insecurity, the loss of the illusion of democracy.

I remember back in 1999, when I was a kid, hearing folks talk about how in just a few years weed was going to be legal and so was gay marriage. I remember thinking that the future was going to be bright and not some authoritarian hellscape. Now there are license plate readers at the grocery store parking lot.

I mean. If we didn’t know how to manage the feelings we have about the future we were promised and lost, and all the trauma we’ve experienced along the way, I guess we’d all wind up driving Dodge Rams with U.S. Flags on them.

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago

But at least you got the good music in the 90s and early 2000s, Gen X didn't get that, but was born into the hellhole you describe

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think it depends on whether you can afford therapy.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What‽ Therapy is our thing. We can't afford a house but by fuck we go to therapy even if we have to cut down on avocado toast

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I spent $1500 of my student loans on it the first half of the year before realizing I qualify for sliding scale and now have medicaid covering everything... I've been kicking myself for the last month, but hey, I also realized there's tons of food banks in my area so at least I'm saving money in a few ways now 😅

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a Boomer-ass decal that Millennial has on his window.

[–] avg@lemmy.zip 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Millennials most certainly go to therapy too, there is a shortage of psychologists and it ain't the boomers going and genz can't get a job with health insurance. I joke but that's not really funny, now I'm sad, let me call my therapist.

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[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This guy is most definitely listening to Creed.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago
[–] mcbenavides85@piefed.social 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 11 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I've been doing this since 1987.

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[–] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago

Go to therapy

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is the most gen x post ever

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is correct. Genx plays music loud. Millenials gently insert their earbuds so they can quietly listen to soft sad music and not bother anyone.

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[–] s@piefed.world 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Normalize not passing on generational trauma

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 20 points 9 months ago

I always used to say to other guys who were freaking out about something on a job site “HEY! YOU WAIT UNTIL AFTER WORK AND CRY IN YOUR TRUCK LIKE THE REST OF US!”

9 times out of 10 they laughed and calmed down a bit. And like it happens when your working camp jobs and long hours, everyone gets frustrated.

[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Millennials damn near invented therapy with all their mental wellness shit—tf is this post?

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Talking shit on here is my therapy. That and screaming at sky tempting god to show himself so I can kick his ass.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sky god always hides the coward.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

God's dead. What do you think Armstrong and Aldrin were doing on the moon?

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[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It’s the days you rawdog life and go home without music. Thems the days.

Go to therapy y’all. Even if you had a perfect upbringing and zero trauma or adversity, you can still unlock more of your own potential and understand yourself better. Even an imperfect outlet like a NA group setting like is better than white knuckling it.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That "unlocking your full potential" sounds more like personal coach pseudoscience than actual medical practice, though.

Be sure to go to actual collegiate professionals with a certified degree in psychology or psychiatry.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

you can still unlock more of your own potential and understand yourself better

Which is why I avoided saying “full potential” like it’s a life panacea and any failure to achieve 100% is your personal failure instead of the program’s.

Yes please only go to board certified professionals for mental health and/or therapy, and please please puhhlease don’t make an LLM or authority figure like a priest your therapist…

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Therapy costs money. What's it gonna do for me that's worth the cost?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Laughs from the generation where everybody and their brother installed an amp and a couple of 12-in kickers in their car.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well 4 12 inch Pyles and Miami Bass Wars in the cassette player but yeah totally …

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[–] happydoors@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

(Every generation loves this, no?)

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[–] individual@toast.ooo 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

what's up with the black and white american flag?

[–] Monument 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every millennial I know is in therapy.

I do not associate with people who decorate their vehicles that way. I find they act like sociopaths.

Ergo, people who put flags like that on their cars are in need of therapy.

I’ve declared it to be true. Spread the word.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sociopaths in therapy only learn to become better sociopaths

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

I ride a bicycle in traffic in a city that is ranked pretty bad for drivers across the continent. I'm not sure if that is therapy or an indicator of needing better therapy.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago

It's more affordable than therapy.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

This guy: Creed

Me: Mad Caddies

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Yes.... But I also go to therapy

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

you guise have vehicles?

[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

What vehicle? I do the same, but at home.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I thought that was to drown out the engine

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[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Bought too many avocado toasts, had to sell "the vehicle". What do I do?

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