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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an early twenties son who isn't dealing well mentally with adversity and hardship. Saying things like "what's the point", "everyone else does much better" , "im old" . He told me that people his generation are creating this image online where everything is perfect and it's really affecting him. We've spoken about therapy and he's considering it but this is something very new for him.  :cry:

Please tell me what you would tell any person who came to you, looking to hear something to keep going.

I don't know what to do in situations like these, it's not my strongest side.

I don't want to just say something cliché, so hopefully you have had similar experiences yourself in your life or others. 
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OP, I can wholly relate! My eldest has always expressed the same. Social media had no doubt made it worse, and then he found a group of friends who are very leftist. Now he feels the great job he worked so hard to get (as well as the degree) is selling out, etc. He smokes a lot of pot, which I think doesn’t help. He is under psychiatric care, but. Not good ones in my opinion. He was expressing last night that he was approaching 30 (a few years left) and doesn’t want to get there. Scares the hell out of me. He definitely feels everyone else is living their best life and he’s not - cannot accept his successes. I believe his depression centers around his appearance (overweight) but he doesn’t do anything to tackle that. There’s no doubt that there are people out there on social media that will prey on people, and no doubt social media is doing bad things. Tik Tok especially, and we’ve lost a couple influencers who just couldn’t keep up with the image they tried to portray. Hearing my son demean his successes just makes me sad.

I don’t know the solution. I just hope my son doesn’t commit suicide. Now that he’s not under our roof, it’s extra-scary. [/quote]

❤️ im sorry[/quote]

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