via BlackDoctor:
As a millennial, I always hear about mental health and mental illness. From my friends, other millennials, from the older generations, we talk about the importance of mental health all the time and how we need to confront and heal our internal wounds. Ironically, under the same breath, I constantly hear the banter of generations before us (even of those who are only 10 years old than me), about how millennials are soft, lazy, and have no sense of work ethic. It’s exhausting, to be honest. It’s tiring having to defend your generation, and bring up facts and receipts (like people ask for), just to have our struggles and views turned down, belittled, and minimized. This only adds to the struggle millennials carry when it comes to mental health.
As we close out 2017 and enter into 2018, I think it’s time that we start taking the mental health of millennials seriously. Millennials are becoming more vocal about the mistreatment and mental abuse we’re facing and we just seem to be getting swept under the rug and ignored. Whenever millennials voice the struggles we’re facing, we’re always deemed as dramatic and complaining, when in reality, we’re dealing with issues (and sometimes in silence) that are crippling our ability to maneuver at work, in social settings, or just society in general.
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