4 Things We All Need to Learn About Mental Health
Younger adults have this whole ‘talking about feelings thing’ down
It’s been a rough few weeks for mental health. As if the constant threat of disease wasn’t enough of a mindfuck, our new social-distancing lifestyle is causing what TIME magazine recently called “an emotional pandemic” of anxiety and fear.
But just as younger adults seem to sometimes fare better against Covid-19, they may also be better equipped, mentally and emotionally, to weather this pandemic. From the Great Recession to our toxic political landscape, people who came of age during our most recent national crises have developed our own way of thinking about mental health — one that people of any age can adopt to make it through the weeks to come. Here are four of our survival strategies.
1. Redefine “healthy”
The wellness boom of the past several years has been fueled largely by millennials, perhaps in part because their health is declining faster than that of previous generations. A survey by Blue Cross Blue Shield found that as they age, millennials are experiencing higher rates of hypertension and high cholesterol, along with depression and hyperactivity, than Gen Xers.
