You Won't Find Any Meltdowns Here!

Generation Z - or Gen-Z, as they are known colloquially - seem to have earned a reputation for being 'snowflakes' - people who are over-sensitised to what's going on around them. However, this may not be the truth.

In recent years, there has been a great increase in awareness surrounding mental health. This is due primarily to advanced developments in medicine and diagnostics but many seem to think that it is simply a side-effect of Gen-Z acting out and being over-dramatic. However, these people are willfully disregarding the fact that a lot has changed since they themselves were in their teens or early twenties. 

Social Media and the internet now play major roles in everyone's lives and while, on the whole, their influence may have significant benefits, they also have their downfalls.

In recent years, cyberbullying through various social media platforms has led to an increase in depression, anxiety, self-harm and even suicide. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) states that adolescents who have been bullied or cyber-bullied are twice as likely to commit suicide. Adults of older generations clearly fail to realise that Gen-Z is not acting out - they're facing a childhood fraught with more discrimination than their forerunners and are simply doing their best to cope with it.