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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.
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I dunno, this seemed accurate to me - not because millennials don't want to go to therapy, but because they can't afford to.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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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That's a Boomer-ass decal that Millennial has on his window.
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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This guy is most definitely listening to Creed.
Nickelback
Can you take me higher?
What's your current gear?
This is the most gen x post ever
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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Normalize not passing on generational trauma
But it's tradition, we need to pass on the culture.
Stolen from Gen-X.
Lame
Yeah, I've been doing this since 1987.
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.
Millennials damn near invented therapy with all their mental wellness shit—tf is this post?
Talking shit on here is my therapy. That and screaming at sky tempting god to show himself so I can kick his ass.
Sky god always hides the coward.
Yeah, gods a bitch.
God's dead. What do you think Armstrong and Aldrin were doing on the moon?
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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.
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.
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…
I don’t disagree with what you said, but most therapists will have a degree in counseling or social work. Psychologists and psychiatrists usually do not work as therapists, although there are exceptions.
Therapy costs money. What's it gonna do for me that's worth the cost?
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Laughs from the generation where everybody and their brother installed an amp and a couple of 12-in kickers in their car.
Well 4 12 inch Pyles and Miami Bass Wars in the cassette player but yeah totally …
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what's up with the black and white american flag?
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.
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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.
It's more affordable than therapy.
This guy: Creed
Me: Mad Caddies
you guise have vehicles?
Yes.... But I also go to therapy
What vehicle? I do the same, but at home.
Meanwhile, boomers rev their Harley Davidson motorcycles to drown out their thoughts.
I know the post is a joke, but millenial is the generation that paved the way to normalising mental health and therapy. Of course, not everyone would be on board. I know some of my peers who are stuck to the old ways and probably too afraid to even do therapy without even considering they don't have to tell someone they went to therapy.
Bought too many avocado toasts, had to sell "the vehicle". What do I do?
I do both. Need all the help I can get.
this is also how we deal with vehicle issues
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