Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis – but there are ways to fix it

I can’t talk about anybody. I am a young guy and am currently addicted to my phone. I wonder how the coming generation will handle the world. I feel kinda sorry for the upcoming generation I mean they have it so hard compared to the older generations who had it relatively easy in comparison. I know older generations had their struggles also but I think todays youth still have it way harder. I mean todays youth have to deal with the threat of WW3 which would blow both WW1 and WW2 out of the water in terms of severity. I mean we’re dealing with nuclear weapons here and cyber robots with guns that can sense your movements and breathe from a mile away. Real scary stuff. Ever watched black mirror that tv series scared me at the time it came out in 2016 because it portrayed the future and the dark side of technology and now it’s practically here everything they showed us in the tv series it’s here. Terminators are real now how scary is that? 

Yellow tree 118 said:

I mean todays youth have to deal with the threat of WW3 which would blow both WW1 and WW2 out of the water in terms of severity.

When I was growing up everyone absolutely *knew* we were going to die in a nuclear war. It wasn’t a threat or an abstract possibility, it was an absolute expectation. 

In the 1980s there was a film called Threads about a nuclear attack on Sheffield and the aftermath of the war. It was utterly sickening and horrifying, precisely because we had the absolute expectation it was going to happen.

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I remember the 80's and how scary it all was, the threat of nuclear war was ever present, i was involved with CND and Greenham Common too. Now with Russia-Ukraine and even more problems in the Middle East and the possibility of China trying to invade Taiwan it's all starting to feel very dangerous again.

I remember the 80's and how scary it all was, the threat of nuclear war was ever present, i was involved with CND and Greenham Common too. Now with Russia-Ukraine and even more problems in the Middle East and the possibility of China trying to invade Taiwan it's all starting to feel very dangerous again.

I’ve been watching old episodes of Dynasty from that time in the 80’s (40 years ago) and although some say that it’s “predictive programming” comparing that to all that has been revealed to us during Covid (initially dismissed as conspiracy theories, only a story, etc) much of it has turned out to be accurate in our times - thing is, how did the writers of such soaps in Hollywood come across so much insider information at society parties and other sources to create so much “fictional” storylines that have been proven to be a warning from history so many decades later? I’m very careful about the sources of information since Covid and I don’t jump to rash conclusions without verifying all such sources, a lesson learnt well these past 4 years