Our thanks to William for this. An extract:
Some 46 per cent of young adults say they have suffered from anxiety in the past 12 months – significantly higher than the 35 per cent recorded by adults.
It comes after the Government’s behaviour tsar last February labelled students who demand to be protected from controversial views as snowflakes.
Tom Bennett said that the problem began at school when too many children were protected from the ‘harsher realities of the world’.
And last month the Mail on Sunday uncovered that growing numbers of ‘snowflake’ students are appealing for special exemptions after missing essay deadlines.
Our paper’s investigation found top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, were inundated with thousands of appeals last year – because students overslept. [J4MB emphasis]
Justice for Men & Boys 
QED.
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“Tom Bennett said that the problem began at school when too many children were protected from the ‘harsher realities of the world’.”
Harrumph, bring back National Service.
Seriously though, speaking as an early millennial, they should have tried graduating into the job market after the 2008-09 crash, when legions of more experienced, more qualified people flooded the jobs market.
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Or the early 80s. I was one of the “one in ten”. It should be no surprise that young people experience anxiety, for they are approaching things for the first time in their lives and its all new to them. Age and experience does give one perspective. The point isn’t to get rid of anxiety and stress but help people regard these as a normal part of human experience that can be overcome. The whole “snowflake” thing has two dangers, one that it teaches that all unpleasantness can be spirited away, which may be possible in the controlled environment of school or college but is of course impossible in real life. And crucially that dealing with it is “somebody else’s” responsibility a recipe for the development of dependency. Together they fuel the development of depression and anxiety disorders.
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Exactly; one of the things that annoys me most about the modern culture of overshare (or as I call it, vomiting your feelz into the public square) is just how shallow it mostly is. And it doesn’t help the people with the real problems if a stranger digitally holds their hand over the internet. For God’s sake, if you are having issues with depression or whatever, go and see your doctor, psychiatrist, priest or whomever. That’s why they exist for feck’s sake.
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I’m not sure the word “controversial” is correct here. Surely the phrase ought to be “other people’s”.
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