There's nothing special here, just pretend you showed up with 100 signed photos of yourself and said you were selling half of them to the highest bidder and keeping the other half. Now your collection of autographed photos is ostensibly worth 50 times as much as you are selling them for.
Generation discourse honestly panders to the lowest common denominator intellect. People who constantly talk about boomers or millennials are usually pretty dumb.
The reason you don't hear much about Gen X is "we" didn't cause anything culturally significant in an enduring when "we" were in our 20s.
If people are repeatedly told that mental health problems are common and that they might experience them … they might start to interpret any negative thoughts and feelings through this lens,” Foulkes and Andrews wrote. This can create a self-fulfilling spiral: More anxiety diagnoses lead to more hypervigilance among young people about their anxiety, which leads to more withdrawal from everyday activities, which creates actual anxiety and depression, which leads to more diagnoses, and so on.
Exactly. The vast majority of people who are either formally diagnosed or self-diagnosed as mentally ill are only mildly so or not at all. And for people like this the last thing they want to do is spend a ton of time ruminating about whatever your condition is, watching influencers talk about it, etc. It'll only make it (if it even existed) worse.
Let me take a second to clarify what I mean when I say they may not actually be mentally ill or their condition may not exist. We have pathologized vast swathes of the normal human spectrum. The article goes into this. Every has anxiety, for example. Dwelling on mild anxiety makes it worse.
Negativity inflation is super bad too, which is why I find a lot of current events news and discourse around it, terrible.
Luckily this is within many people's abilities to fix, with better news and discourse hygiene.
I'm not mad or picking a fight, it's odd you see such powerful emotions in a very normal internet discussion, perhaps therapy would help... No what I was doing was leaving you with a dumb joke because I understood that despite the huge and well known economic benefits, you still think TV is why people want to move here
Pretty much every immigrant already knows people here, whether closely or indirectly. They are not drawn by the rosy picture presented by the NBA or Marvel movies and presuming they are is really condescending and honestly embarrassing too. No - what they see is members of their families or friends' families succeeding and sending back massive remittances, or for the professional workers they have easy access to pay scales for the same industry in the US vs. their home country and a certain number of them are more than willing to trade distance from family for 2x to 3x salary.
They were ok stories