This thread is hard to take seriously, because you're just coming off as someone who knows very little about the "mental health" issue people are talking about, and also just want to rag on the younger generation, like every generation does the one after them, and unfortunately may until the end of time. No offense.
Millennials are also the first generation to come of age since cultural attitudes about mental health started changing, so they tend to talk about it more often.
We're not talking about just being nervous or sad. Us young kids want to destigmatize serious mental health issues. Granted, some don't help the cause by exaggerating their issues. And some people legitimately do need to "toughen up". But that's far from a new thing.
My father and mother both worked in the medical field. The dangers of just ignoring ones' mental health often leads to nothing but suffering most of the time, even suicide. We're talking about serious issues. The fact that 132 people a day kill themselves in this country on average, and the fact that rate is going up, proves that "just suck it up" isn't an effective solution. Saying "back in my day we just sucked it up until we died or blew our brains out" doesn't make you sound tough, either. It makes it sound like progress needs to be made, and this should have been a destigmatized subject much longer ago.
How about we listen to people who talk about mental health issues (whether they're real or not), with an open mind to make the world a better place, instead of ragging on them and pretending we're tougher?
