The psychological fragility of the technology generation

What I’m thinking about is why this generation collapses quickly and enters a state of despair and frustration after every situation that does not deserve this sadness and misery? And why does this generation complain of anxiety, sadness, and difficulty in life to this extent? And when will this youth realize the destructive pleasure they feel every day? And why is there an unprecedented increase in suicidal thoughts and cases?

These questions have stopped me, and when I researched this topic, I found the most important book by American author Jean Twenge (iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood).

The title of the book alone is alarming. Should we be worried about this fragile young generation, Twenge asks? First, what is fragility? Fragility is the result of excessive fear for this generation and sensitivity in feeling, which increases as we approach the present moment and amplifies any problem to the point of imagining it as a catastrophe and describing it in exaggerated terms. This amplification makes us fall into a state of mental collapse and loss of resistance, and then it turns into self-flagellation.

But fundamentally, it was clear that this concept did not exist in the middle class.

One of the reasons for this fragility is the failure of parents to allow this generation to face and integrate into reality. This generation grows up completely without responsibility, and its biggest goal is a stable life, free from shocks, conflicts, or confrontations. There is a saying: “The more comfortable the body, the narrower the soul.” I do not mean to deny pain or sadness, but I mean that there should be a balance point between excessive tenderness and harshness.

We also notice now that a very large number of young people at this age suffer from this phenomenon, and the biggest proof of my words is the large number of terms that our grandparents did not know or did not spread in this way, such as (depression — psychiatrist — emotional emptiness — emotional void — …… etc.), and the funny thing is that most of those who talk about these words do not even have a basic knowledge of these topics, they hear about them and repeat them.