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Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. to Drop in Global Happiness Ranking (gizmodo.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Who is actually surprised by this? I would be more surprised if young Americans felt it was a great place to live.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (17 children)

Millennials killing yet one more thing I guess. Really though, you can't blame them, given the state of affairs, we should really be placing blame where it's due, on the people who are driving up house prices, rents, and general prices overall. A friend's rent just went up $150 this year (~10% increase), and it's the exact same shithole it's been for the past year. Meanwhile, annual raises are typically only 2-4% if you're lucky...

"Rich Elites Cause U.S. to Drop in Global Happiness Ranking" is a more apt title.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Yeah.

I struggled with panic attacks in the military and during an aid mission we brought a bunch of medical staff from other countries with us.

So I talked with a German psychiatrist.

His advice was basically:

Yeah, you're in an incredibly stressful situation, obviously you're going to be stressed, it's completely normal

Which helped a lot more than it sounds like would have.

He didn't try to pill me up or anything or say it was my fault for how I'm handling it.

Just very simple matter of fact told me my response was 100% rational.

What the fuck does the average American have to be happy about right now? Millennials being unhappy is because life sucks for lots of us.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If you are curious, that is part of logotherapy, which was started by a German.

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.” ― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This just reminded me of how great of a book that was. Time to reread it a decade after I first read it.