I’m always struck by articles targeting the millennial generation and the many perceptions of what’s wrong with millennials. . Often, this popular cultural stereotype portrays the entire US-American generation of people born between 1981-2000 as needlessly complainy, entitled, expectant of participation trophies, self(ie)-obsessed, don’t value hard work, financially illiterate and wasteful, the disappointing lazy products of overly soft parenting. . And the people popularizing these opinions frequently fail to examine this generation’s experience of the impact of the very real forces of massive-scale economic distress due to an imbalanced and inequitable economic system; the global political failure to preserve humanity from environmental destruction; increased political instability, corruption, and violence; the mindblowingly consistent increase in dangerously xenophobic, racist, and oppressive governments (including the one right here in our own home); the routinizing of institutionalized violence on people of color by police, the court system, and the jail system; the all but total invalidation of college degrees as a safe entry point to a desirable career path; the terrible and extremely long-term weight of debt from student loans to credit cards; persistent and widespread wealth inequity that robs humans of everything from fair access to quality food to education to housing to legal services to health care to child care to livable wages to freedom to live without fear of being killed for one’s identity. . Millennials are actually the generation who has collectively recognized the indignities of the world they were born to, and answers, “we don’t accept this and we demand that it should be better.” Millennials can be identified by: listening to the voices of all people and especially the most vulnerable, advocacy, speaking out, marching, demonstrating, spreading information and knowledge, and actually coming together to put potential new practices into writing and running for office to directly create change. . Clink the link in my bio to read the Buzzfeed News article “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.” #therapy #mentalhealth #kaytetherapy https://www.instagram.com/p/BsRWvn5ntao/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v4pkgmg70oe4
