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3 Reasons for Adult Problems: Secrecy, Isolation, Perfection
Behavioral health professionals are beginning to survey the damage from the global pandemic. Many will say, privately, that we have a “third-wave” of the pandemic looming. But this time it will be a mental health epidemic.
According to a recent study published in Harvard Business Review, about half of US millennials and 75 percent of Gen Z’ers have quit their jobs for mental health reasons (https://www.mindsharepartners.org/post/the-state-of-mental-health-in-u-s-workplaces).
There are three contributing factors leading to all these emerging adult problems: Secrecy, Isolation and Perfection.
Let’s break it down:
- Secrets.
About five years after my wife and I got married, I bought a terrific new house. It wasn’t a rental house, either. Or a fixer-upper that we could put on one of those reality shows where you flip the crib and rake in a pantload of cash…..in a weekend.
This was a big-boy house: two car garage and all. The only problem is…..I didn’t tell her about it before I made the binding offer on the home.
