• criticon@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    People with social anxiety born before 1980 didn’t have the memes to express themselves

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        4 months ago

        Hard to say. Definitely not as many people actually naming their anxiety. It was sort of taboo to talk about mental health plainly.

        But a lotttt of folks with dubious coping mechanisms, just repressed and bottled up without even the memes to combat their anomie.