It’s exhausting, to be honest. It’s tiring having to defend your generation, and bring up facts and receipts (like people ask for), just to have our struggles and views turned down, belittled, and minimized. This only adds to the struggle millennials carry when it comes to mental health.
As we close out 2017 and enter into 2018, I think it’s time that we start taking the mental health of millennials seriously. Millennials are becoming more vocal about the mistreatment and mental abuse we’re facing and we just seem to be getting swept under the rug and ignored. Whenever millennials voice the struggles we’re facing, we’re always deemed as dramatic and complaining, when in reality, we’re dealing with issues (and sometimes in silence) that are crippling our ability to maneuver at work, in social settings, or just society in general.
Millennials are living in a confusing time right now We are constantly being told to achieve higher, yet generations before us aren’t giving us the opportunity to do so. Every day someone is calling us lazy and entitled, while many of us can barely make ends meet. When we do have a job, we get paid the bare minimum, we barely have health coverage, and most likely it’s not related to the area we earned our degree in.
How can we take mental health, especially in the Black community, seriously if our issues are being seen as less than?
The problem is no one wants to talk about the root of the complications within millennials. Elders love talking how when they were in their 20’s they could buy a house, buy a car, pay for school, etc., but somehow manage to forget the economy and job market in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s was drastically different from what it is in 2017. It’s easy to talk about all your accomplishments when you didn’t have to go through the same obstacles to achieve them. Elders can’t belittle millennials and treat us as if we’re unsuccessful when we’re put in a position not to grow.
Before you ask about our life, before you compare generations and why don’t we have a job or aren’t in a relationship, please understand that most millennials are already feeling insecure about finances and life. Don’t pass judgement, lend a hand.
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