“Obsession With Therapy-Speak”: 36 Things Older People Don’t Get About The Younger Generations

Recognising toxic behavior and setting borders is a crucial ability in life.

People misusing or overusing terms they've been made newly aware of has been with humanity forever. The important takeaway from this complaint however is this: this generation is aware that mental health and psychological well-being are a thing, and they TALK ABOUT IT. They're also more likely than any other current generations to go seek therapy unprompted, so if they are misusing, misapplying, or overusing terms and are genuine but misinformed - their therapist will eventually sort that out with them. So for those who are well-meaning, but caught up in a notion, it's a self-solving problem, eventually. As for actual gaslighters -- misusing terms is kind of their whole thing.

Some people make internet buzz phrases their entire identity. Makes me nuts.

It seems that therapy these days is just another way to be the center of attention for many people.

I wish the person who coined the term gaslighting was gibbetted. More than 3/4 of the people who bandy that term about aren't even doing it correctly.

And the best part is that you most likely wouldn’t rewatch the video ever again.

It's the worst!! You don't see it quite as much at metal shows, but still. I might take out my phone a snap a couple quick pictures here and there, but that's it. I'm there for the experience of a band playing live and hopefully melting my face!

To show everyone we were there on social media bahaha

YES!!!

These people have no interest in watching the concert. The ticket price is their start-up costs for the video of the concert they think they're going to sell.

There is a concern that the younger gerneration are becoming illiterate.

My youngest got in trouble in 4th grade for writing in cursive. I responded to the teacher (in cursive, of course) that if the schools would not teach my children what they will need, as far as English/Language Arts are concerned, then I will. Both kids had/have phenomenal vocabularies and are great writers as adults. Personally, I hate it when people don't even try to make their emails & texts coherent. Punctuation? Spelling? Upper and lower case letters? Since when did they become optional?

A lot of people think that spelling, grammar and punctuation optional in all forms of online communication... okay, maybe this is somewhat true for quick chats, but for serious emails? Not acceptable.

literacy issues, sadly

I don't think that's just a generational thing. Before you start teaching, you just aren't exposed to that much bad writing. Back in high school I always made fun of a friend because of his extremely bad writing. He still can't write a coherent text, but he teaches guitar on a university level lol

If I'm upset enough to be crying, the LAST thing on my mind is sticking a phone in my face to record, and then posting it for all to see.

Crying for attention is not crying.

Same as any reality TV shows. If there's no water works, no audience.

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Recording yourself _anything_.

And if you're really that upset, how do you have the ability to set up your phone?

God I hate voice messages. My cousin does this all the time. She isn't doing anything that would stop her from either typing a text or calling but says it's easier

Same with people using voice to text: I don't need to hear every text you're sending.

this is not a younger generation thing. i can say a lot of mean things about certain people who do this, and i can say with 100% certainty, they are not from the younger generation.

This is usually the older generations, not younger.

It's kinda funny, i prefer writing and best friend usually responds in voice messages (she has dyslexia). Our chat looks funny with text and the sound as replies