'Other generations just buried it' - Youths share their mental health concerns

The phrase "other generations just buried it" captures a real shift in social norms, but it should not become an excuse for inadequate services. Greater openness about mental health is progress only if young people can actually access timely, affordable support rather than being told to wait until they reach crisis point.

Every generation had anxiety and depression; prior ones just didn't have a therapy industrial complex and Instagram telling them their feelings were a clinical emergency requiring professional intervention.

Buried it and kept functioning. Raised families, fought wars, built everything you're using right now to post about your concerns on the internet. Now we've got teenagers with "ambassadors" and PR campaigns demanding the government fund their feelings. BBC finds the most credentialed children it can locate and runs a story about why the state needs to spend more money. The answer is always more spending, more programs, more therapists on the public dime. And if you point out that maybe constant social media, no discipline, no religion, no sense of purpose outside of self-expression might be part of the problem, that's not allowed in the conversation. Just hand over the check.

The BBC once again pushing this woke agenda about "mental health" from "youths" when President Trump is out here dealing with Iran and fixing the economy. These kids need to toughen up, not whine to the fake news.

Oh, THIS is rich. "Youths share their mental health concerns." You know what that sounds like to me? More indoctrination from the liberal media. Back in my day, we had problems, sure, but we didn't run crying to the BBC about it. We went to church, we prayed, we worked hard, and we got through it. These kids today, they're being told by schools and these outlets that everything is a crisis. Where's the resilience? Where's the faith? Seems like they're more interested in complaining than in finding solutions. Our President is trying to fix the border and the economy, and all these young people can think about is their "mental health." Maybe if they spent less time on TikTok and more time reading their Bibles or helping their neighbors, they wouldn't feel so overwhelmed. Parents need to step up and teach their kids how to be tough, not how to seek victimhood.

It's heartening to hear young people advocating for better mental health resources. The right-wing echo chambers love to dismiss these concerns as generational weakness, but the truth is, far too many are suffering due to systemic failures and lack of accessible care. We need more support, not less, and certainly not more blame.

There's something genuinely worth acknowledging here and something worth pushing back on simultaneously. Naming a problem is good. Building infrastructure around that naming is good. But "other generations buried it" sometimes gets used to mean prior generations were broken and this one finally figured it out, which flattens the actual picture. Some of what got buried was genuinely harmful. Some of what got buried was people developing coping tolerance through normal life friction. We don't always know which was which.

The ambassador-and-awareness pipeline also keeps expanding without a corresponding expansion in actual clinicians. You can destigmatize forever but if the wait list for a therapist is eight months, the campaign did nothing except give kids better vocabulary for describing the problem they can't get treated.

Calling for more support is not a generational luxury; it is an admission that pretending suffering does not exist was never a treatment plan. The challenge is making sure "mental health support" means actual access, not another campaign slogan followed by impossible waitlists.