Kids are supposed to feel stress, and embarrassing moments and anger and sadness. They should be bullied and fail grades and try their hardest only to lose and not even get a green ribbon.
Kids need to experience these 'hardship simulations' when they are young and the consequences are limited to gain the emotional maturity and life skills to deal with life. If you walk into a car dealership and you don't know how to deal with bullies, you're gonna get stapled to the wall.
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· 7 years ago
Or you buy a Tesla and then you don't have to worry about haggling a price with a dealer :P
A certain level and types of stress and anxiety can be beneficial and healthy. This study was not on state anxiety which is the temporary anxiety you mention, but on trait anxiety which is an overall stability of a person. I posted above and a brief synopsis as well as the original article, which the original post frames out of context.
The study was in the December issue of the APA journal. It was done on children (9-17) and college students and found an increase in trait anxiety scores on samples tested against the Between 1952-1993, not "young people today." The study wasn't on stress but trait anxiety which is anxiety of overall stability as opposed to state anxiety which is normally expected in certain situations and temporary. The study finds the likely causes to be both a general disconnection and mistrust of other people, and rising crime rates and global instabilities. Considering the period after the early 50's saw the height of a Cold War, Civil unrest, and huge changes in news, technology, etc. this makes sense.
Article: "The Age of Anxiety? Birth Cohort Change in Anxiety and Neuroticism, 1952-1993," Jean M. Twenge, PhD, Case Western Reserve University; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 79, No. 6.
Stress during the war in general would have been high for most people especially in Europe. Civilians were impacted heavily as well. However as you say the war was officially over for most combatants by 1950. The 50's saw rise to the Cold War, the late 50's and 60's saw the counter culture movement, civil rights, spikes in domestic terrorism, rise of drug culture and modern organized crime, several high profile assassinations, etc. The study this references was about overall anxiety though not temporary natural anxiety. Overall this is a mess.
Fun fact: WW2 is said to have ended with Japanese Surrender in 1945 but this is a convenience. There was no central German government to officially surrender. When Germany was divided into soviet east and democratic west this compounded the problem. The United States used this "technical state of war" as our justification for stationing troops in western Germany. The official German adoption of the end of the war wasn't legally made until 1990 when both Germany's united. The Japanese and Russians, major axis/allied powers respectively, to this day have not legally ended the war and still dispute territory with each other. Several modern conflicts are ongoing descendants of WW2 hostilities as well. To your point though, Dday was far from 1950 and This should be a picture of the Korean War. Vietnam was next during a 40 year cold world war in which everyone faced daily threat of nuclear destruction. About 100 years of near constant war, so it is correct to say OP didn't think it out.
Upvoted. PTSD and the human costs of war don't just disappear into confetti when the treaties are signed. The image and the point being conveyed still don't line up or make a valid argument, but it's important to remember that many WW2 survivors had mental scars their entire lives after.
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· 7 years ago
Upvote for good history.
You are indeed a gem, guest_
Why the trend for comparing mental illness to PTSD or war stress? Yes war stress awful but invalidating other peoples experiences is a recipe for disaster.
Kids need to experience these 'hardship simulations' when they are young and the consequences are limited to gain the emotional maturity and life skills to deal with life. If you walk into a car dealership and you don't know how to deal with bullies, you're gonna get stapled to the wall.
Article: "The Age of Anxiety? Birth Cohort Change in Anxiety and Neuroticism, 1952-1993," Jean M. Twenge, PhD, Case Western Reserve University; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 79, No. 6.
You are indeed a gem, guest_