Great post as always. I could have a blog dedicated to replying to your blog posts as they always get me thinking.
In defence of getting overwhelmed by nowt...I think small, trivial things are probably triggering because they unlock echoes of other trauma. That's perhaps why one small thing can get to us while we easily brush off other small things.
In defence of Gen Z, they spent their developmental years going through COVID which was a massive existentially traumatic event. When the entire world can get flipped upside down seemingly out of nowhere when you're growing up, that's going to have a major effect on how you experience life going forward. When every day life is traumatic, maybe every day life can become triggering.
And absolutely - my fave Blind Boy talks about this on his podcast too. You’re basically responding to the last time you were made to feel that way!
I completely understand why Gen Z have grown up this way but I do think it’s our collective job to remind them that it is, in fact, safe to make mistakes, look stupid and be uncomfortable in the way that we weren’t permitted to by our own parents generation.
Great post as always. I could have a blog dedicated to replying to your blog posts as they always get me thinking.
In defence of getting overwhelmed by nowt...I think small, trivial things are probably triggering because they unlock echoes of other trauma. That's perhaps why one small thing can get to us while we easily brush off other small things.
In defence of Gen Z, they spent their developmental years going through COVID which was a massive existentially traumatic event. When the entire world can get flipped upside down seemingly out of nowhere when you're growing up, that's going to have a major effect on how you experience life going forward. When every day life is traumatic, maybe every day life can become triggering.
Thanks Dan
And absolutely - my fave Blind Boy talks about this on his podcast too. You’re basically responding to the last time you were made to feel that way!
I completely understand why Gen Z have grown up this way but I do think it’s our collective job to remind them that it is, in fact, safe to make mistakes, look stupid and be uncomfortable in the way that we weren’t permitted to by our own parents generation.