Gen Z stress and anxiety are 'normal life experiences,' Columbia psychologist says
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Feeling stressed and anxious can be a good thing. They can help you focus and complete tasks, a prominent psychologist says.

"Suzy Welch, an NYU business professor, previously said the trend is fuelled by Gen Z’s ‘strong desire to avoid anxiety at any cost’ because they haven’t made hard decisions or done hard things.

Pike believes the discussions around mental health and mental illness must continue and that Gen Z will eventually learn to cope with difficult feelings.

‘There may be times where a Gen Z young professional may have a threshold around stress or anxiety or mood that actually over time an expanded comfort with a wider range of emotional experience will actually be a maturing experience for them,’ she said.

‘Success grows out of learning how to get back on the horse, learning how to build the skills, how to ask for help, and how to build capacity in ways that didn’t exist. That’s part of maturing in the workplace.’"

So fucking tone deaf, gotta love the baiting of success. Success to Business Insider of course meaning committing your life force to that grind culture to make the owner’s ego score lines go up.

  • Pratai@lemmy.ca
    913·
    9 months ago

    Way to completely misunderstand the point of the article:

    “Gen Z being open about mental health issues is a “watershed moment” in the workplace and sparking meaningful change in the long term, according to Pike.”

    ~ Pointing out the progress made in brining theee things to the surface.

    "At the same time, in the effort to talk about mental health and share around mental illness, there can also become an expanded discourse of experience that at times loses track of normal fluctuation of human experience and mental illness,"

    ~ pretty self-explanatory here if you’re not polarized and understand how nuance works.

    “Feeling stressed out when you have a deadline or feeling sad, disappointed or anxious are “normal life experiences.”

    ~ again, self-explanatory, but the gist is that anxiety and stress are normal and oftentimes even beneficial. It’s part of nature and as animals, it’s healthy that we have this. Expecting a completely stress-free working environment is absolutely ridiculous and unrealistic.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Because there are deadlines at work, or busy times, or certain cases where the person doing the work is doing it the first time and needs to figure things out.

        There can be things done to make the job low stress, but you can only do so much.

        • stoly@lemmy.world
          52·
          9 months ago

          The point here isn’t that stress can come even from stuff you like to do. The point here is that you can create work for people to do that doesn’t harm them emotionally in the process.

      • Pratai@lemmy.ca
        913·
        9 months ago

        Because again, NUANCE. Not all jobs are the same and some are stressful by their nature. No one here is saying that a McDonald’s job should be stressful or involve anxiety. But believe it or not- some jobs REQUIRE you to work in stressful environments.

        Stress and anxiety can be healthy. Look it up. Or of course you can continue to argue about articles written by people who actually have researched the subject extensively, and understand how it works.

        • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
          93·
          9 months ago

          So what you’re saying is expecting a completely stress-free working environment is realistic for most jobs except for a few high pressure ones?

          • Pratai@lemmy.ca
            510·
            9 months ago

            No, that’s not what I’m saying. Nor is it what they’re saying. But you go ahead and see what you want to see.