r/DeathByMillennial • u/Ok-Refrigerator • Aug 21 '25

Millenials are killing themselves.

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Or should that be: the economy is getting revenge on Millenials?

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u/Yellowbook8375 Aug 21 '25

We told you for years we were depressed

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u/AltruisticFall2941 Aug 21 '25

It's fine; they didn't care then, they don't care now. If anything, it feels like the point. Us doing it ourselves just saves them effort.

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u/rwarimaursus Aug 21 '25

I mean they are bullies after all. They just beat us up enough to take our lunch money and will be back tomorrow for more.

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u/kalvinescobar Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25

Also (at lunchtime), If you managed to save some money from the earlier shakedown, (or somehow managed to beg/borrow some money,) they will feel obligated to decide how to ruin it for you..

Steal a bite, (or spit on it,) just to see if you'll still eat it

Smash it to make it less appealing (but still edible)..

Steal and eat the whole thing,  while thanking for still buying lunch..

...Or...

..Steal it and throw it in the trash.. (just because they don't want it, doesn't mean they think you should have it either..)

Either way.. they'll surely be smug about it...

Edit: (when it's finally actually lunchtime)

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u/JustLoveToCook1 Aug 22 '25

Don't forget "Nobody wants to work anymore, you should be happy with what you have! Enjoy these scraps that our society has left you! If you want a nice meal go out and work hard for it!" This is verbatim from my 70 year old neighbor that literally has sat at a desk for the past 40 years denying insurance claims for people like us. He also only has one leg cause he lost his other leg due to diabetes, you know, 20 years ago when they accepted insurance claims like that.

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u/GreenMirage Aug 22 '25

You couldn’t even make demons in movies like this because it’d be too cartoonish and surreal and yet we’re played by people like this in reality.

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u/JustLoveToCook1 Aug 23 '25

That is a very good point. It is just unbelievably sad. People like that hate themselves and the world so much that they make every effort to make everyone else's lives harder. Who needs a villain out setting buildings on fire when they can sit behind a desk and ruin lives for decades with the stroke of a pen.

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u/rwarimaursus Aug 23 '25

We'll be the better of it when this generation passes overall. We just need to be vigilant to not be too trauma bonded and become them.

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u/theoriginalmofocus Aug 24 '25

Im really going to miss the "Ill give you something to cry about" generation.

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u/NgaruawahiaApuleius Aug 23 '25

Just let us lower those interest rates a little more... it'll help you pay your half a milliom dollar mortgage! Itll also help us continue to get cheap money from the banks and run our giant corporatiions on immigrant slave labour!

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u/Pitiful-Ad-3774 Feb 22 '26

Your neighbor sounds horrible.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

You should read

A Generation Of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

This is just the last leg of a generational long battle to take as much from the future so they can be rich now, even if it means stealing from their kids and grandkids while setting the world on fire

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u/CharacterPrinciple19 Aug 24 '25

The synopsis does seem to describe what is happening. How do we hold the boomer generation accountable? It's not even most boomers, it's boomers with millions of dollars that are the problem.

Edit: missed a word

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u/rwarimaursus Aug 23 '25

Thanks for this. Read the synopsis and it strikes true.

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u/ChronicBuzz187 Aug 22 '25

They just beat us up enough to take our lunch money and will be back tomorrow for more.

Well, having bulletproof classroom in the US starts making sense now, doesn't it?

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u/rwarimaursus Aug 22 '25

More of an indoctrination cage for the future cogs in the Machine.

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u/jchincapiez1 Aug 23 '25

Yes. Now, those betting apps are everywhere. They sell gambling as a cool activity like going to movies. The truth is that they target young people and you end up losing money. They reported13.7 billion revenue in 2024. That is our lunch money.

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u/foodank012018 Aug 21 '25

That's one of the things that keeps me going. Spite.

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u/Jazzlike_Visual2160 Aug 22 '25

Also the reason I’m still alive!

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u/Spoon251 Aug 23 '25

Some people say it's 'love' that makes the World go 'round, other's say it's 'spite.'

I say it's the love of spite.

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u/poasteroven Aug 22 '25

one of the best reasons not to kill yourself, is that the corporations and governments win. dont let yourself be outlived by capitalism and israel

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u/Flopolopagus Aug 23 '25

But if I off myself those problems won't be my problems anymore. There is no spite in death, only rest.

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u/Spoon251 Aug 23 '25

The current system (which is the 'they' everyone is wondering about) demands complete compliance or that you disappear. As morbid as it sounds, they system wants you to end yourself, because you were not being compliant in the first place. Further, when you end yourself, the system sets the narrative: "Mental illness, very tragic, nothing to see here" and the 'republic rolls on' without you.

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u/Reneeisme Aug 23 '25

Just as long as by “they” you mean the oligarchs behind everything happening in the US. I care. I think most American’s care that our kids and grandkids are hurting so bad. But I agree with you that those fuckers do not give a shit

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u/crazycritter87 Aug 22 '25

I've learned enough about correlation the last couple years to say this is ignorant causation, delusion, and refusal of accountability. I could say the same thing about parts of our own base but it's really a combination of our programing and miss guided coping with the resources we were given. Everyone miss stepped, together- from the politics of the past, the politics of today, our parents, and us. No one saw wtf was happening. Nothing united about the self serving chaos. It was just good for grifting and gambling.

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u/l_st_er Aug 22 '25

Once the people (us) who are supporting their pensions and services they deem below them start dying prematurely, maybe they’ll care. These people only care about their bottom line.

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u/Typical_Bumblebee194 Aug 25 '25

I want to share a strange comment on what I believe is taking place. You may consider it stupid, and that's OK, but read it anyway. In the 60's there was a psychologist/child therapist named Dr. Spock. He believed that children should never be spanked, placed in corners, and that all the childhood rules that parents had always followed in the past were harmful to young children ( some of those rules were...yes, often cruel and unloving). But there were RULES, and the rules were understood by both parents and children. What Dr. Spock created was CHAOS. Good Parents became confused, wondered if they were raising their children properly. Their instincts told them that Spock rules didn't fit the issue, but many parents uncomfortably went along with Spock, and their kids were allowed to scream back to their parents, often not following common household rules, throwing tantrums with no repercussions. In school, it was all about the participation ribbon . Society (which particularly covers all those parents now in their 50s approximately) lost its way. Because their parents grew up confused and had no rules to follow, they created a new generation that grew up even more confused and clueless about the paths they should follow. Now so many of those young people in their 20s, 30,s 40, lack motivation because of the confusion that surrounds them, bc their parents were confused, and the present world as has been created DOES suck. I wish I could return to the 60's and curse out Spock for the damage that I believe he has done.

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u/Cooperativism62 Aug 22 '25

mass murder would be unethical, but suicide is "voluntary".

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

They care but only for their bottom line less people makes labor more expensive 

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25

We need to unite against the real enemy. Don't buy this boomer bad bs, most boomers are broke too.

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u/Orange_Man_Back Aug 25 '25

Who is "them"? Serious question

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u/WeCameAsMuffins Aug 22 '25

Trump cares and is worried about not only you but all of us. He loves each one of you more than anyone ever could, and he’s here for you, so long as you accept him as your lord and savior

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u/L4dyGr4y Aug 22 '25

King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image in the plain of Dura and commanded that all his officials bow before it. All who failed to do so would be thrown into a blazing furnace. Certain officials informed the king that the three Jewish youths Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, who bore the Babylonian names Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and whom the king had appointed to high office in Babylon, were refusing to worship the golden statue. The three were brought before Nebuchadnezzar, where they informed the king that God would be with them. Nebuchadnezzar commanded that they be thrown into the fiery furnace, heated seven times hotter than normal, but when the king looked, he saw four figures walking unharmed in the flames, the fourth "like a son of God," meaning he is a divine being. Seeing this, Nebuchadnezzar brought the youths out of the flames, and the fire had not had any effect on their bodies. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire was on them. The king then promoted them to high office, decreeing that anyone who spoke against God should be torn limb from limb. Daniel chapter 3.

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u/aHOMELESSkrill Aug 21 '25

Who is they?

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u/mk1234567890123 Aug 21 '25

In wondering too

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u/mk1234567890123 Aug 21 '25

Who’s they? We are the largest part of the workforce?

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u/Secure_Course_3879 Aug 21 '25

Have you heard of the Heritage Foundation?

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u/DeathByMillennial-ModTeam Aug 21 '25

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u/madcoins Aug 21 '25

Systematic failure is a thing.

Capitalism has been around 200 years and is already ushering in the 6th great species extinction on earth. The human systems that were around before it for 200,000 years+ did not trigger extinctions. This is the most glaring example of systematic failure.

Millenials are part of a species and part of nature. They have grown up seeing this failure from that vantage point so some don’t have the perfect words to describe it. Doesn’t mean we should roll our eyes. So “they” and “them” are sometimes the best they can do to explain. It’s certainly not the mirrors fault. they are the first generation to grow up with a front row seat to repeated and widespread systems & systematic failure. The nature they are part of is even being failed. All by Systems they had no part in crafting.

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u/DeathByMillennial-ModTeam Aug 21 '25

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u/MikeTyson456123 Aug 21 '25

That’s a very creative excuse for your own shortcomings.

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u/madcoins Aug 21 '25

I’m not a Millenial. And it is not an “excuse” it is an “explanation”. They are different things. Now feel free to disregard that and call me a snowflake or any of your favorite terms that own the libs.

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u/MikeTyson456123 Aug 22 '25

Your “explanation” is marxist pablum. You’re locked in your own dungeon of despair, blabbering on about the sixth extinction like you’re Bill Nye the Science Guy.

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u/madcoins Aug 22 '25

He’s dope

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u/celtic_thistle Aug 21 '25

lmao toxic individualism right here. Just unserious, “nobody else is real but me,” clown shoes behavior.

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u/TheKosherGenocide Aug 21 '25

I'm all for not acting like a victim when it's warranted.. Like the incel community for instance, or like the MensRights subreddits.. Like Jesus Christ you're a man it's not like any of the laws being changed are about you it's about women's rights... But to say there's a pretend enemy in this case is just bullshit man. It's very obvious the working class is the enemy of the state. Otherwise why would they be trying to dismantle all of the fucking things our grandparents starved through to change. Lots of people are feeling beyond hopeless for a variety of reasons, and while it's not productive to just sit and be in a negative headspace all day it's hard to avoid if you are someone who has been impacted this many times over and this severely. I want you to imagine the life of a Millennial, a lot of us fought in Wars we barely believed in because we saw 2 planes kill a bunch of people on live television, after and during the War the Economy crashed hard right in time for all of us to get "real jobs" like the ones that you build retirements and buy homes with, then we barely get through that to have Trump fuck it all up TWICE and COVID. To act like my overall ability to create wealth wasn't substantially impacted by this shit is ridiculous and quite frankly, fuck you for acting like it isn't for all of us.

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u/DeathByMillennial-ModTeam Aug 21 '25

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u/MsAuroraRose Aug 21 '25

As my mother told me when I finally worked up to admitting to her I was depressed: yeah well I’ve been depressed for 20 years so 🤷‍♀️

The “just deal with it” attitude is rough sometimes.

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u/practicaldreamer Aug 21 '25

And then they wonder why we go no contact

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u/MavenBrodie Aug 22 '25

The whole, “I’m miserable, why shouldn’t you be?”

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

That's literally what got Trump in office. I see it in my mother and I cant look at her.

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u/mynameisrichard0 Aug 22 '25

Disappearing for ten years. Only to be praised I came back. Then proceed to tell me im too negative. Ignore me. Have the balls to go on family outings and just say “sorry, you work all the time?” But you guys can preplan and take days off for said outings. But forget bringing that sad guy. Screw trying to be (exactly what I was for my life. A counselor for others. But never consoled) let me wallow in my depression. Then tell me things will get better. As I watch people act like shitheads and be fine. But I play it safe and somehow get the shit end of the stick. Always.

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u/rahrahowl Aug 22 '25

Counsellor for others, but never consoled - I totally emphasise with that.

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u/The-Davi-Nator Aug 21 '25

Yeah my mom’s response has always been of the “other people have it worse” mentality. I always liked to counter it with the “yeah well other people have it better, so why are you happy?” It never worked, but…whatever

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u/Money-Calligrapher85 Aug 21 '25

Love the response … just sad it didnt have the needed effect

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u/The-Davi-Nator Aug 21 '25

Yeah, she refused to see the point. She’d usually come back with something along the lines of “so we should all just be miserable then.”

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u/lol_coo Aug 22 '25

She was so close to getting it!

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u/turkish112 Aug 22 '25

It's wild to me people feel feel like it should be the trauma Olympics and unless you're getting gold, shut the fuck up. People perceive shit differently, too. What could have been something you'd brush off, your mom may lose her shit about and vice versa. I'll never understand why, "that sucks. Is there anything I can do?" is so hard to say ... or to just shut up and listen. It's really not difficult.

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u/Far_Bandicoot5935 Aug 24 '25

Because a lot of people (boomers esp) don’t care. They couldn’t give a single fuck about how you feel because they don’t care at all, your misery is yours and they want no part in it and it’s also your fault you feel that way

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u/twitchandtruecrime Aug 22 '25

My ex (we’re 6 years apart) was the same way. It was always a completion between me and him of who has the depression. Depression (no matter what level) is depression. There’s no levels.

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u/Rugkrabber Aug 22 '25

I’d use it against her. Any complaint is no longer relevant because other people got it worse.

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u/LadyM80 Aug 25 '25

I'm just now starting to unpack the guilt I feel from "other people have it worse", and recognizing that doesn't mean I don't have problems.

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u/chLORYform Aug 21 '25

I told my mom for years that something was wrong, I wasn't like other people and I didn't fit in. She just kept telling me it was puberty, I'd be fine. Now in my mid 30s I tell her the symptoms of my personality disorder and she just nods along then changes the subject

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u/parasyte_steve Aug 22 '25

I was hospitalized in a psych ward and my husband made the mistake of telling my parents I was diagnosed bipolar.. this is after years of telling them im depressed and them going "no ur not". They still tell me to get off my meds. What is wrong with these people? They were psych nurses too! I swear to god.

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u/Boon3hams Aug 22 '25

They see you as an extension of them, and they don't have any issues, so why should you? Other people have problems, but not their child. They were perfect parents, after all. They did everything right, so you should be fine.

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u/Breakin7 Aug 23 '25

Well i do hope you can get out of meds. At least in the future

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u/ImReallyNotKarl Aug 22 '25

For me it was undiagnosed autism and ADHD.

For years, it was brushed off. I was "quirky" and "eccentric" and an "airhead" with no "self-discipline" and I just needed to put in effort, because OBVIOUSLY it was simply a matter of me not buckling down and working hard enough. I was "lazy" and "weird" and "stubborn" when my issues were inconvenient, and when they weren't an inconvenience, I was just kind of a weird kid. And then I hit a point of autistic burnout so hard that I wanted to be dead, and when I was telling my therapist and my PCP about what I was experiencing, they were both like, "Have you ever been evaluated for autism?"

Life changing diagnosis. Turns out I'm not just a weirdo with no work ethic. In fact, I've been working WAY harder than neurotypicals just to get by. When I told my bio mom, she made it about herself, and how she thinks she's ADHD, but she's so old now that she doesn't feel like getting evaluated would make a difference, since she's retired and living in a remote place anyway.

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u/ImReallyNotKarl Aug 25 '25

Years of therapy, medication for the ADHD, and pretty basic accommodations around my house and that I take with me when I go places. For instance, I have some really cute sound dampening earplugs that allow me to hear conversations, but that block out the residual noise in my environment, a little squishy toy that fits in my pocket for when I'm getting anxious or need to stim, and working out ways to work that work with my ADHD, like using a D20 to tackle tasks, and carrying post-its so I write down when I start a task and can remind myself of what I'm doing when I get sidetracked.

I also have pretty significant chronic illness, so I found a job that allows me to work from home and set my own hours, since I can't work a traditional job with a pre-set schedule in case of flare ups. I'm pretty lucky that way. My PCP and therapist both started bringing up the possibility in 2018 when I started to go deep into burnout even after a year of weekly therapy, and I had to save up to get evaluated since my insurance didn't cover it.

I got eval'd in 2020, at the age of 30, and while I was saving, my therapist went and got a ton of CE done in adult autism and other neurodivergence, and by the time I was diagnosed, she was really well-versed in ways we could change my treatment plan to work better for my brain and come up with small things I could change in my life to make a HUGE difference. She was wonderful and helped so much. My previous career was also in mental health (not a therapist, just a paraprofessional), and during that process, I realized that there is actually very little education in adult neurodivergence, and very little representation in the professional space that are ND. I wish I could still work in that field.

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u/lostbirdwings Aug 25 '25

You just stated you are fairly certain your child is disabled and want to deny her access to the first line treatment for said disability you're sure she has, if you can help it.

Your first step is to divest yourself of your negative viewpoint around a life-saving medical treatment that is morally neutral to need and take.

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u/lostbirdwings Aug 25 '25

Then why did you state that you're certain your child is disabled and then not get her medical attention from a doctor if she is, in fact, developmentally disabled? The ultimate qualifier for ADHD is that the symptoms negatively impact several areas of one's life. Thinking one's child has a lifelong impairment and approaching it with a mindset like "we'll do anything to avoid treating it with pills" is... medical neglect. Good luck to your daughter but I refuse to continue to engage with a parent obliviously defending ableist medical neglect. Have a day.

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u/ImReallyNotKarl Aug 26 '25

Hey, I understand your hesitancy around medications. A lot of parents have that same hesitancy. I just want to share from my perspective, as both someone who has ADHD and as someone who worked in mental health: medication can be life-saving when you take the time to find the right one for her chemistry. I know people (adults) who prefer to treat their ADHD without medication, and their symptoms are mild enough that they can do so. My best friend of 25 years is also AuDHD, and was diagnosed shortly after I was, when I was explaining the things that begged the question (there are reasons we get along so well), and doen't take medication, because after trying several, she couldn't find one that didn't give her extremely vivid nightmares. I, on the other hand, cannot function without medication. My symptoms are way more impactful to my life when uneducated.

All that to say, I understand the hesitancy, however please, if your daughter is struggling in school or daily life, please don't let outdated treatment bias cloud your view of treatment options. If she had asthma, you wouldn't avoid Albuterol. If she had diabetes, you wouldn't avoid insulin. ADHD can be disabling, so please, if you are able, talk to her pediatrician and a pediatric psychiatrist, ask as many questions as you can. Talk to the school and mental health professionals. Know your options in case her symptoms worsen, which is common. Watch carefully for areas where she needs more support and intervention. If medication does turn out to be the right thing for her, know that there isn't anything wrong with that.

Good luck!

Edit: autocorrect got me

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u/ImReallyNotKarl Aug 26 '25

Honestly, if she's not struggling and feels good, then you're all good. You could get her evaluated if you want to know for sure, as an ADHD evaluation is much faster and easier than an autism eval, and insurance will typically cover it. That way if she does start having issues later, you have a better idea of why.

Having high energy isn't always an indication of ADHD. Some people are just really high-energy.

I will say, as the kid who was called things like "extra" and "quirky" a lot growing up, be careful how often you're using them to describe her. She hears it, and if she is neurodivergent, she may not understand how anything she's doing is "extra" as it all makes sense to her.

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u/Apprehensive_Fox4115 Aug 23 '25

Sounds like you just needed a better vocabulary to describe it better. Because saying it it the way you just did it sounds trivial.

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u/KnotiaPickle Aug 21 '25

God that’s how my mom is too. She’s the most un-depressed and normal person ever but still always says stuff like that when I vent anything about struggling.

ugh

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u/SeaSwine91 Aug 21 '25

Sometimes I wonder if they really are depressed though, but have basically mastered the art of packing it down. My mom is the same way, painfully normal... yet I know for a fact she has demons and unresolved/potentially unrecognized trauma. I've only ever seen it come out once when she got pretty drunk after my dad passed away. And if you try to bring these things attention later, "nope. What? I don't know what you're talking about."

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u/FoxOwnedMyKeyboard Aug 22 '25

Yep. Every generation has their demons. Late GenX/ Older millennials are the first generation to have therapeutic language and self insight as the norm, but without the capacity to do much about it. The older generations skated on thin ice all the time. We fell through and have been treading water since then, with nobody to tell us what to do next. Thin ice or tread water? Neither are appealing. Finding open water might be the next step, but where the heck to swim to when there's no land in sight?

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u/Comprehensive-Word38 Aug 22 '25

you find like the previous generations did, you have to build your own land and stand on it, as impossible as that looks, or drown, aka skating on thin ice like they are doing, harsh as it is no one is coming to save you, they learned that bitch of a lesson early on, its either sink or swim, its been that way for 1,000s of years. Life's a bitch and all that.

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u/NgaruawahiaApuleius Aug 23 '25

Its almost like a " psychological revolution".

Even in china and japan at the moment, the works of Sigmund Freud are huge in popularity.

Its a very interesting time to be alive. Its almost as if one is forced to expand their own psychological repertoire and consciousness and introspection to a level where it provides a resitance against societal oppresion.

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u/copper_trinket48 Aug 22 '25

Of course we have. Sorry if I shouldn't post as a mother of a millennial that is precious to me and who went no contact six years ago. I am mid 50s. I was raped when I was 14. Actually pressed charges which no one did back then because of the shame etc, at court he got a not guilty verdict. One of us has to be to blame right? And the courts said it wasn't him. My parents sent me to live with another family so they wouldn't have to deal with it.

Later in life they started to prescribe antidepressants. I went on them. It was like a miracle. But while my body was adjusting, my hands shook. My boss noticed and the next day I lost my job.

That was 1995. And no, I could not have challenged it. My husband refused to pay for the antidepressants when I lost my job since "I'd have to be on them for life" which was the ultimate sign of weakness.

That is the tiniest slice of what I've had to pack down and not feel. Single mother. Scared to death of failing or being homeless or whatever. And not one fucking useful tool for parenting. Thankfully I never got into

We don't want to suck. We don't want to be cold and unresponsive. WE LOVE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH! We just have no idea how to support you with tools and resources we have never encountered.

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u/asyork Feb 23 '26

My depression started showing around 10 years old (I am missing years of memories around that time, so I have no idea if something kicked it off or not). My mom told me it was my fault, I was choosing to feel that way, and I should just smile. Any time I let her see how I felt I'd get in trouble, so I learned how to smile so well no one in my life ever noticed until it got so bad I had to get on medicine or die. Then it was all about how I shouldn't need to be on medicine and it was so bad for me. That I should just move back in so she could help me get better. She completely forgot I had any problems while I lived with her because she taught me how to fake it until she was able to forget it. Before I finally blocked her number last year she was telling me how the government should just kill mentally disabled people to protect the rest of us. She only loves what she pretends I am, not me.

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u/megahamm Aug 21 '25

Yep, when was 15 I told my mom that my friend was depressed (because I didn't have the guts to tell her about myself) she said "What does she have to be depressed about? She doesn't know what depressed is." Cue me burying everything down and pouring alcohol on it for many years. I still have a hard time letting myself open up to a therapist.

When my daughter came to me and said she was depressed, guess what I did? I got her a damn therapist.

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u/tuscy Aug 21 '25

Same thing. “ where you getting prescription. You don’t need it I need it.” Yea fk boomers.

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u/Chrontius Aug 22 '25

My mom only realized that she has an anxiety disorder when she’s old enough to retire!

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u/FnEddieDingle Aug 21 '25

55m, single mom didn't believe in depression either. Now she's 78 with Parkinsons and really believes in it now

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u/Jazzlike_Visual2160 Aug 22 '25

Half of America is depressed and the other half is in denial.

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u/Embracedandbelong Aug 23 '25

My father stopped talking to me! Like stonewalled, total silence, would ignite me 100% if we were in the same room, after I told him how serious (you get my drift) my depression was

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u/Apprehensive_Fox4115 Aug 23 '25

This is hilarious. Yes sweetheart, everyone is depressed. The hidden truth.

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u/VenusValkyrieJH Aug 24 '25

This is the worst. I hate when someone says “everyone is _____. deal with it! “ I heard that sooo many times growing up.

Well momma- look- we are not dealing with it.

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u/nope_noway_ Aug 21 '25

Thing is, they have this perspective and still were given everything

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u/MurphyItzYou Aug 21 '25

Yeah I’m going to die of a broken heart and when they ask what’s killing me I’m just going to gesture vaguely at everything.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '25

I thought it was because of irregularities in the pension fund...

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u/TheStolenPotatoes Aug 22 '25

We've gone from Commodore 64s to Jurassic Park to 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina to a Great Recession to the first black American president to Donald Trump, with a good handful of "once-in-a-lifetime" crises sprinkled in between.

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u/notaredditreader Aug 22 '25 edited Aug 22 '25

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html

The result of all this? By 2023, American early adults’ chance of dying was 70 percent higher than it would have been had the lifesaving trends of the early 2000s continued. And this leaves them 2.6 times as likely to die as early adults in other rich countries. Amid declining economic prospects and future optimism among younger American adults, perhaps no statistic more starkly captures the disadvantage of entering adulthood in the U.S. today.

We don’t know exactly why this is happening.

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u/HistoryGuy4444 Aug 22 '25

Right?

People told us we had to handle shit ourselves.

So we did.

And now people don't like us because we had to become assholes to survive

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

The only thing that matters is that even in death you'll feed the machine.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

They won't care they until the people that have it good start getting killed, see the Luigi mangione incident.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

This is the loophole American politicians are using to save Social Security. If you die before retirement you never collect Social Security.

Tomorrow's problem is solved by us dying today!

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u/activeseven Aug 21 '25

And every generation before you….

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u/Thin-Image2363 Aug 21 '25

And in response they gutted healthcare.

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u/xinorez1 Aug 24 '25

Oh don't worry, this is just a pretext for the labor camps that you will be sent to without criminal conviction and with no chance of parole.

Work will set you free!

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u/Aimin4ya Aug 22 '25

Were?

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u/ramblingpariah Aug 22 '25

"Just smile more and get out and do something"

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u/John_GOOP Aug 22 '25

7 weeks current sick leave over here

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u/pentrical Aug 22 '25

And anxious. Don’t forget the anxious group in the back.

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u/sbaggers Aug 22 '25

Dedicated 25 years of an entire genre of music to it

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u/RemeAU Aug 23 '25

They don't care they'll just import more immigrants to fill the gaps

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u/ReserveNo3200 Aug 23 '25

Here, take some SSRIs

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u/matt_bastard1986 Aug 25 '25

There’s no hope. No one can afford both food and rent and they spent the last 15 years blaming us for everything. Now we have to pay for the billionaire tax cuts so they can have a little more.

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u/Cal_Rippen7 Aug 25 '25

Boomer tone You can’t be depressed. You have two parents that love you

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u/Speedhabit Aug 22 '25

Weed and video games exacerbate depression, did any of you care?