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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the boomer generation is both hugely entitled and also has never been asked to be accountable for their own actions and emotions for some reason.
eg my therapist sent me a link recently to an explanation on cognitive distortions. I shared it with my mom and said something like 'helpful!' My mom has OCD/ OCPD, black and white thinking, catastrophic thinking, generalized anxiety and possible borderline personality disorder traits. She just said 'oh this doesn't apply to you or i'.
same with my dad who is clearly depressed but would never even consider thinking he is depressed. 
It is hugely annoying. Why do you both get to be babies in denial? Grow up and take responsibility for your behavior. [/quote]

I agree with this.  Few struggles so they don't relate to struggle. They are also on the decline so their behavior is worse than others but also just a stark difference from the generations before them that had to struggle more. I also feel like they are trying to make up for the addictions they exacerbated in their youth by being more conservative now but this time are saying its not them but another generation.  Maybe because they were treated that way themselves and are just imitating what their parents did.
. Like they take no responsibility for the hippie times that helped bring about all this change and drugs they now don't like. [/quote]

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