Gen Xers, Boomers Discuss Mental Health

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Gen Xers and boomers share how they dealt with anxiety and depression growing up

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Gen Xers and boomers share how they dealt with anxiety and depression growing up.

"We were told suck it up. You're fine. There was no such thing as depression or anxiety then." "No one talked about mental health. Nobody talked about it." "I didn't have depression OR anxiety. I was also just too sensitive, and timid, and dramatic, and overly emotional, nervous and lazy".

"As a teen in the 70 's, I self medicated. Some nights , I would lay in bed and cry myself to sleep." "Alcohol, cigarettes, wouldn't eat food for days at a time. It seemed like an okay thing to do at the time. Looking back I wonder why someone didn't intervene." "Music is still my safe place all these decades later .".

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