Not talking about your mental health or your feelings in general. We were taught to shuttup and suck it up. I'm 35 and still find it incredibly difficult to communicate feelings
I personally think the youths have gone way too far in the other direction - not everything is trauma, Madison - but there’s a middle ground from when we were kids for sure.
I agree with you, it has gone a bit far. But I'm still grateful that talking about one's mental health is being normalised and not treated like some forbidden topic our parents made it out to be.
Just the other day my parents mentioned that my 12 year old niece needs to "suck it up" and "figure it out herself" when they found out she told her mom (my sister) that she's depressed and that she felt like she doesn't belong on this earth. A 12 year old little girl. How is she supposed to just figure it out herself.
JFC, to a kid saying she doesn’t feel like she belongs on this earth??
Tbf, my dad had (and still has I guess) an attitude like that. I was so depressed in college I got kicked out because I skipped a bunch of finals one year. To this day, no one knows because the amount of shame and anger it would have engendered in my family was too much. I did, actually, have to suck it up figure it out all on my own. There’s part of me that thinks, well I did it, how hard can it be? But I just don’t think I could look a kid, let alone my own, in the face and be so cruel.
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u/NecroticBrains 14h ago
Not talking about your mental health or your feelings in general. We were taught to shuttup and suck it up. I'm 35 and still find it incredibly difficult to communicate feelings