(TikTok screenshot)
That’s a Boomer-ass decal that Millennial has on his window.
Millennials most certainly go to therapy too, there is a shortage of psychologists and it ain’t the boomers going and genz can’t get a job with health insurance. I joke but that’s not really funny, now I’m sad, let me call my therapist.
I go to therapy every january.
The therapist assures me that we will be able to deal with my intense and labyrinthine shit.
The therapist suggests some pithy bullshit.
Then my inaurance runs out for the year.
What‽ Therapy is our thing. We can’t afford a house but by fuck we go to therapy even if we have to cut down on avocado toast
I spent $1500 of my student loans on it the first half of the year before realizing I qualify for sliding scale and now have medicaid covering everything… I’ve been kicking myself for the last month, but hey, I also realized there’s tons of food banks in my area so at least I’m saving money in a few ways now 😅
And just as PSA for anyone else, even if (or especially if?) not in the States, if your insurance doesn’t cover therapy, a TON of therapists/counsellors offer sliding scale. Don’t be afraid to ask.
Go to therapy
This is the most gen x post ever
This is correct. Genx plays music loud. Millenials gently insert their earbuds so they can quietly listen to soft sad music and not bother anyone.
I’m a millennial who put his headphones on to loudly play music… to not bother anyone with it.
Yes I have hearing damage. Not it’s not just from the music.
Millennials damn near invented therapy with all their mental wellness shit—tf is this post?
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No, boomers don’t go to therapy because they believe it’s for weak people. Millennials don’t go to therapy because they can’t afford it. Same result, different approaches.
Yes, the cycle continues for as long as humanity exists.
https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/
I’d argue that’s still not turning in to boomers, since most millenials don’t mindlessly suck off nostalgia, perpetually misremember history, and idolize American imperialism.
don’t mindlessly suck off nostalgia
Looks at all the reboots of tv shows and movies coming out of Hollywood geared towards millenials and Gen Xers
Just because Hollywood is lazy and consumers dumb doesn’t mean millenials are nearly as succeptible or brainlessly receptive to pandering as boomers are.
*Not yet
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OP seems to think so
(Every generation loves this, no?)
Not millennials, we’re about going to therapy.
I am millennial as well! I guess this is a both/and scenario
Meanwhile, boomers rev their Harley Davidson motorcycles to drown out their thoughts.
I know the post is a joke, but millenial is the generation that paved the way to normalising mental health and therapy. Of course, not everyone would be on board. I know some of my peers who are stuck to the old ways and probably too afraid to even do therapy without even considering they don’t have to tell someone they went to therapy.
I thought that was to drown out the engine
Grinding brakes*
Why would I want to drown out the sweet sounds of an LS V8 purring out of my catback exhaust?
Bought too many avocado toasts, had to sell “the vehicle”. What do I do?
That sounds all to familiar
Is this what you call “tuff only in Oklahoma”?
this is also how we deal with vehicle issues
I think I have his shades. Not his beard though.
This seems like more of a Gen X attribute to me. I’m an older millenial, and I know heaps of people my age who go to therapy.
I think it depends on whether you can afford therapy.
Very fucking good.
Yep.
But the covering up with music part is still less common for millenias, who are more likely to be able to openly discuss their struggles and emotions with friends
I dunno, this seemed accurate to me - not because millennials don’t want to go to therapy, but because they can’t afford to.
That’s an American thing. Where in from, health insurance covers it completely. But you’ll need a while to find a good, available therapist
Yeah our generation was short of the -68 hippie love generation so we got the sex drugs and rock’n roll decade. Millennials seems so much more at ease with their (bad) feelings.
I mean, the alternative was to crumble.
I mean, fuck. I was just thinking it through -
In the U.S., Most millennials started out in the wake of the war on drugs and the damage it did to communities. From there, you have the racial tension of the 90’s, the death of truth with Fox News, the rise of school shootings, 9/11, the start of the rightward/authoritarian swing of the U.S., the ‘08 recession, citizens united, loss of democracy, COVID, another recession, inflation, housing insecurity, the loss of the illusion of democracy.I remember back in 1999, when I was a kid, hearing folks talk about how in just a few years weed was going to be legal and so was gay marriage. I remember thinking that the future was going to be bright and not some authoritarian hellscape. Now there are license plate readers at the grocery store parking lot.
I mean. If we didn’t know how to manage the feelings we have about the future we were promised and lost, and all the trauma we’ve experienced along the way, I guess we’d all wind up driving Dodge Rams with U.S. Flags on them.
But at least you got the good music in the 90s and early 2000s, Gen X didn’t get that, but was born into the hellhole you describe
