Take their benefits away from them, then they will really know what stress is.

It's our own fault we have bread a generation of snowflakes.

Mental health problems are real but the numbers are way out of proportion with previous generations. Sometimes life sucks and then you realise that are not going to be a Premier League footballer or social media influencer, welcome to the minimum wage job.

I recently returned from Vietnam what struck me was the can do culture, I predict they will be the next South Korea / Taiwan because they just get on with it. There have been enormous changes in that country in the last 30 years but it is mainly the people who all seem to have 2/3 jobs.

Edited by Badger11 (26 Feb 2024 8.02am)

One more point

I'd suggest the problem lies with having a million and one different ways to say you're 'feeling a bit down/sh!t' these days and the push of a narrative to suggest this is the end of the world and most important issue for young people, as opposed to any empowerment or wisdom to overcome it.

As with any of the liberal nonsense these days, my main concern is that it dilutes the real issues for those sincerely affected. Somehow, young people who feel ever so slightly lonely, disaffected or a bit spiritually weak (doesn't everybody?), as a result of the mundanities of life, are now encouraged and shuttled into the same boat as those with life altering and life threatening mental health issues.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Nope! Starts before that - when you start asking a 3 year old what they want to eat or wear everyday, you can expect trouble later when people start telling them 'NO'

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Very simply - everyone has to feel they have a stake in society and achievable goals gained via application.

If you over educationalise - not actually educate - kids forcing them to all compete for meaningless A* grades while at same time allow them to see idiot influencers/ social media bods appear to gain riches from loafing about, flashing their bods and spewing inane s***e, then the young get alarmingly mixed messages.

The vital stake in society has been taken away from the young in the last 2 decades. Housing, families, jobs that aren't bulls*** have all disappeared and they are left without even the ability to rebel and upset the apple-cart as the 68ers did in the 60's because they get socially/digitally spotted and told they are neuro-divergent, unwell or 'other' and are probably invalids in our society. What I want is for them to rebel and get militant and tell us how they want the world which they will inherit - some brave folk do, particularly in the climate arena.

Fundamantally, we are a couple of decades away from significant societal collapse. Plummeting birth rate, lack of housing, abominable healthcare, climate crisis, ageing b*stards like me, and few young breadwinners to boost productivity. 20th Century Boys... Girls become geezers and biddies and 20th Century thinking is for the dustbin, yet it still seems to predominate in every sphere in 'modern' Britain.

Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.