CLEAN-LIVING GEN Z ‘OLD BEFORE TIME’
Experts: Young adults anxious with boring lives
YOUNG adults are missing out on “vital life lessons” by becoming old before their time.
Generation Z – used to describe people aged 25 and under – are living in a “toosafe comfort zone” which is leading to increased anxiety and a boring life, academics have warned.
“Generation sensible” are too preoccupied with social issues, healthy living and not drinking too much alcohol.
But experts say living this way is causing them to miss out on a “wealth of life experience.”
Psychotherapist Natalie Phillips said: “I’m seeing a disproportionate increase in referrals for social anxiety, professional anxiety, general self-confidence and relationship issues for this generation when they are confronted with being in an office, nightclub or on a date.
“I sense that [this generation] are missing out on making mistakes and being young. They are old before their time.”
The warnings come after a study, published in the British Journal of Sociology, said Generation Z don’t like drinking alcohol as they don’t like the feeling of “losing control” and are worried about the health consequences. Dr Phillips went on: “They are not in social situations to the same extent that we were generations before them.
“There’s a danger that your world becomes inward-looking, and that can then cause self-perpetuating anxiety.
“The outside world is much more scary because you haven’t got the experience to deal with that.”
Generation Z has long come under fire for being bores with a recent study showing that the 18-25 age group “don’t see the point” in drinking.