Wah Wah the world hates me. Wah Wah I might as well kill myself.

[QUOTE="DmadFearmonger"][QUOTE="JML897"]What annoys me more than anything is is when people post vague negative comments about someone and I worry if they're talking about me or not.rawsavon

I've been extremely depressed. But I've NEVER told my friends, I've kept it a secret for a few years and I'm only 17.

I believe that the ones that really are depressed try to hide it and the ones who post it everywhere are just attention-whores.

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="DmadFearmonger"]That's just as bad, yeah.YellowOneKinobi

[QUOTE="YellowOneKinobi"][QUOTE="rawsavon"] Do you guys really think parents were a lot more encouraging in previous generations :? If anything, parents have become even more encouraging rawsavon

I said it before and I'll say it again. This generation is a piece of ****. Look at the top twitter trends. BIEBER ALERT? Really? Over the revolution in the Middle East?

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="YellowOneKinobi"] I could be wrong as this is only my opinion, but I think parents today are more engaged, but not more encouraging. That is, I remember back when I was in school, and I got in trouble and a teacher called home, my parents would say "What did HE do?" Nowadays it seems like parents, in that situation say, "What did SOMEONE do to provoke him?" I guess a better description might be that nowadays, to me, it seems that parents want to be more "friends" with their kids than "parents." They want to shelter them from any and all harm (even the types of 'growing pains' situations which I think help people develope to become strong, independent people).YellowOneKinobi

[QUOTE="YellowOneKinobi"][QUOTE="rawsavon"] I think all of society (in Western cultures) is a lot more encouraging/more concerned about the individual/more concerned with how _____ affects an individual. You can look at psychology (it's focus, the way studies are conducted, etc). You can look at schools and the way education is going You can look at any number of things in the world and see that they are more focused on the individual, with the effects on said individual, and encouraging them. Now we can argue all day if this has been a positive or a negative (when comparing to other cultures). But I don't think there is much of an argument to made that 'we' don't focus more on the individual/encouraging them to be who they want to be/encouraging them to achieve what they canrawsavon

Topic: Wah Wah the world hates me. Wah Wah I might as well kill myself.

You just wrote a hit song!

Topic: Wah Wah the world hates me. Wah Wah I might as well kill myself.

You just wrote a hit song!ThePerro

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="YellowOneKinobi"] I think the word "encourage" may not be the right word though. For example, you mentioned schools and immediately I thought of the concept/practice of Social Promotion in which a student is advanced to the next grade so they don't "feel" inadequate. But in the end this only permits them to fall farther behind. Is that really "encouraging" them? I also think of some of the local Little Leage sports (at least in my area) in which no score is kept in Soccer games, because they don't want kids on either team to "feel" like losers (thus preventing them from learning all the lessons that go along with losing at one thing or another). So, is this really "encouraging" them? I think the intentions are good, but like they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.YellowOneKinobi

We need their depression. They will all buy antidepressants to support the system.

In the twenty years that teens have had the Internet, two things have been consistently done by teens:

1. Watch Porn
2. Send Hate

Its clear that teens are spoiled as hell.

People become depressed even though they dont live in 3rd world countrys.

Your just selfish, try showing some respect.

[spoiler] But posting it on facebook is just lame [/spoiler]

People become depressed even though they dont live in 3rd world countrys.

Your just selfish, try showing some respect.

lasseeb

What's even more pathetic about teens in this generation,, is that they whine like hell if Facebook is down, or their cell phone service is down. They throw a temper tantrum. They have no problem with handing over their personal info to a private entity (facebook), but they do have a problem when they cant ***** about people on it.

[QUOTE="YellowOneKinobi"][QUOTE="rawsavon"] What you are arguing is not society being more encouraging or not...your post admits that it is. What you are arguing is if this change is for the better. To that end, I said (earlier): "Now we can argue all day if this has been a positive or a negative (when comparing to other cultures)."rawsavon

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="YellowOneKinobi"] I think you're splitting hairs and rationalizing.YellowOneKinobi

[QUOTE="YellowOneKinobi"][QUOTE="rawsavon"][.rawsavon

Ok, we can agree on the definition of the word "encouragement." But back to the original topic (sort of), I think part of the reason that this generation "seems" to be a little more down-in-the-dumps than is typical of other preceeding generations is that they were raised in this type of bubble-world (for lack of a better term). There seems to be NO black and white. That is not to say that kids shouldn't be taught to have an open mind. But I think by trying to protect them from EVERYTHING, they perhaps aren't getting enough challenges/lessons learned the hard way. You win some, you lose some. If you never learn to lose, how can you ever learn to win?YellowOneKinobi

[QUOTE="YellowOneKinobi"]Ok, we can agree on the definition of the word "encouragement." But back to the original topic (sort of), I think part of the reason that this generation "seems" to be a little more down-in-the-dumps than is typical of other preceeding generations is that they were raised in this type of bubble-world (for lack of a better term). There seems to be NO black and white. That is not to say that kids shouldn't be taught to have an open mind. But I think by trying to protect them from EVERYTHING, they perhaps aren't getting enough challenges/lessons learned the hard way. You win some, you lose some. If you never learn to lose, how can you ever learn to win?rawsavon

Because they are idiots. Another good reason why facebook should not be used.

Yeah, it gets old after a while, many of them are just being melodramatic in my opinion.

Send them to a third world country, they'll return more thatnkfull and **** less.

jerk-o-tron2000

I agree, my biggest facebook pet peeve is when someone posts fml after there status :x

I only kinow one girl who I can honestly say can post that and I would be fine with it, and that is because her father died a week before she contracted numerous diseases that have her on hospital bedrest

Not really, I'm just sick of steriotypical teenagers posting this kind of crap on Facebook. Why is my generation so depressed so early in life? It's sad really.

DmadFearmonger

Let's not forget that depression is a realcondition and teens aren't immune to it. You can't assume every teen who's down feels that way because Tumblr crashed.

Depression doesn't need to be triggered by living in a third world country, people who live perfectly charmed lives fall victim to it. It's a terrible thing.

Not really, I'm just sick of steriotypical teenagers posting this kind of crap on Facebook. Why is my generation so depressed so early in life? It's sad really.

DmadFearmonger

those kids just want attention , attention whores lol

A percentage of teenagers just do it for attention, which really isn't a bad thing.

Hypno toad has made the generation sad

It's facebook... empty relationships and technology informania really distract people from finding reality and true meaning. Especially at the stage in life where you're already moody.CptJSparrow

Not really, I'm just sick of steriotypical teenagers posting this kind of crap on Facebook. Why is my generation so depressed so early in life? It's sad really.

DmadFearmonger

[QUOTE="DmadFearmonger"]

Not really, I'm just sick of steriotypical teenagers posting this kind of crap on Facebook. Why is my generation so depressed so early in life? It's sad really.

Bloodseeker23

Well, I don't think most of the people who say that are actually depressed.

They've usually just had something happen that has them upset, like got in a fight, broke up, event cancelled, etc., don't they?

I blame emo for this.

I blame emo for this.

rockerbikie

I blame emo for this.

Simply put, the increase in suicide and the general increase of depression, angst, and narcassism among young people is in part due to rampant individualism and a culture of zero-sum, collective **** you attitude. A premiere sign of a narcassistic culture in being unable to see life through the lens of the distraught and assuming your life experiences and your beleif system applies to everyone.

The main problem with criticising angst is that though it is by its nature a self-centered way of thinking, its not like much of the rest of American society is even marginally alturistic or tolerant. The world is a dog-eat-dog world full of people with no regard to your quality of life living in your own neighbourhood and many young people tend to adopt such behavior of the broader culture. Broader society of course shames young people for adopting such cultural narcassism (which is logical in all fairness), but is too caught up in its own solipsism to clean its own house and expects young peopleto be self sacrificing and yet doesn't itself adopt any sense of even marginal alturism and responsiblity towards the impovrished (when it doesn't concern the plight of women anyway).

We're a culture of "Stop whining and pull yourself up by the bootstraps" except that:

• American men as a group seem programed to automatically take care of every little nuisance in front of women if they whine enough...
• Leave these SAME arrogant women who have had been cuddled all their lives to be the ones primarily responsible to raise the next generation of kids to be productive....
• And finally not seem to come to a conclusion that, recoginizing the dependency or cynicism of succeding generations, something is SERIOUSLY wrong in how we raise kids and the need to reform the system.

We realize that we can't tolerant narcassism and blind amorality in our kids (when their male), but we can't seem to ask ourselves HOW a huge chunk of our kids have gotten to that point.