• @riodoro1
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    135 months ago

    Is it a new thing? Are people born after 1980 just walking anxiety?

    • @essell
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      495 months ago

      Nope. A very old thing.

      People born before 1980 just have other names for it.

      • @[email protected]
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        5 months ago

        There be ghosts in my system!

        Just kidding I was born in the '80s, I’m walking anxiety.

        • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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          75 months ago

          Really couldn’t have opened with that fact?

          I got the cocaine and morphine ready to deal with some ghosts in the blood. What am I supposed to do now?

          • @irreticent
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            65 months ago

            More cocaine and morphine, obviously.

      • @riodoro1
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        15 months ago

        But were there so many of them?

        • @samus12345
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          Yes. They just didn’t have nearly as many outlets to express it.

        • @[email protected]
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          95 months ago

          Hard to say. Definitely not as many people actually naming their anxiety. It was sort of taboo to talk about mental health plainly.

          But a lotttt of folks with dubious coping mechanisms, just repressed and bottled up without even the memes to combat their anomie.

    • @BarbecueCowboy
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      115 months ago

      Like a lot of the problems from the past, you basically figured it out yourself or just went off to die in a corner alone and didn’t talk about it.

    • @then_three_more
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      45 months ago

      No, people before were too. They just self medicated to the max 🍷🍷🍷🍷🥃🥃🍻🍺🍺

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      things generally haven’t been great since the industrial revolution, but the big thing is that nowadays we’re just soaked in stress at all times with little reprieve.
      Used to be in the past that things were generally chill except for big stressful events that happened every now and then, but nowadays things are constantly loud, we constantly have to hurry to do stuff, we constantly have to worry about affording basic things and knowing that we’ll probably never own a home, etc etc etc.

      We’re also in the middle of a loneliness epidemic, it’s basically standard at this point to have few friends and not hanging out with people anywhere near enough. Add these things together and you get people being miserable.

    • @Lizardking27
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      15 months ago

      No but the people active on social media are/want to be.