Millennials Narcissistic Generation

Joel Stein uses his article in TIME Magazine, “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation” to address the underlying issues and positives of the millennial generation by using various forms of data, statistics and negativity. While he is mostly successful with his tactics, he goes to such extremes with his negativity that he loses some of his audience before he even has a chance to talk about anything else. Stein spends much of his article speaking about how the Millennial generation is lazy, however research suggests that the Millennials aren’t necessarily lazy, but are held in place for various reasons outside of their control.

Our world has come to a point in history where we rely heavily on pills and therapy and diagnosis and doctors and studies, just to tell us what’s wrong with our personalities and our brains – for what? So pills can be prescribed and therapy revived for the diagnosis doctors proclaimed, backed up by studies they never named, all so they can keep their jobs? There appears to be no rhyme or reason to the excessive diagnosis apart from the goal of expanding one’s practice. Clinical studies are often discovered to be biased, or data manipulated. Whether the focus is on teenage trauma or debilitating depression, professionals tend to overlook important factors of influence. An array of sources have taken to this subject including a psychiatrist based in Berkley, a featured neuroscientist on TedTalk, a cartoonist named Mike Baldwin, and an analysis by s.e. smith.

In today’s world of technology and advances in the medical system, many people are now getting care that many people in days gone by would not have gotten. With this progression more people than ever are being diagnosed and treated for Mental Health conditions. Dr. Allen Frances (2013, May 4) suggests that some people do not actually need treatment and doctors are over diagnosing. In Dr. Allen Frances (2013, May 4) video he is calling for Mental Health Care System reform.

The overall message and core argument this book offers is that the new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5, will cause an enormous increase of people who are not mentally ill being diagnosed with a mental disorder and receiving unnecessary treatment for it. Allen Frances argues that assigning everyday problems to mental disorders causes massive disadvantages for individuals and society. Diagnosing a healthy person as mentally ill will lead to unnecessary, harmful medications, the constricting of horizons, misallocation of medical recourses, and wasting the budgets of families and the state. He states as well that we do not take responsibility for our own mental well-being. We do not trust our

The ethnography The Myth of the Age of Entitlement: Millennials, Austerity, and Hope by James Cairns, discuss the myth of entitlement about millennials (or Generation Y) in a political, economic and social perspective in the North American context. Cairns, debunks the idea that “young people expect everything to be handed to them without having to work for it” (Cairns, 133). There is a misconception that millennials do not work hard, are lazy, are addicted to praise, have a lack of respect to authority and are more entitled than any previous generation. When in reality they have to work harder due to the loss of entitlements compared to previous working generations. For instance, when Sedef got her dream internship at CMI she was grateful to

Allen Frances was on the task force that led to the development of the DSM-IV, served as the Department Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Duke, and a notary author of numerous books and research. His experiences and education allowed him to observe and draw a conclusion that society was creating an inflation of mental health disorders that could be evaluated as normal. After his early retirement, he decided to write about those experiences, in a book called, Saving normal: An insider 's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life, and bring awareness to the Diagnostic Statistical Manuel’s (2015) inflation of mental health disorders. The book focuses on the history of mental health and Frances’s perspective on what is normal and abnormal mental health disorders.

The ethnography The Myth of the Age of Entitlement: Millennials, Austerity, and Hope by James Cairns, discusses the myth of entitlement about millennials (or Generation Y) in a political, economic and social perspective in the North American context. Cairns debunks the idea that “young people expect everything to be handed to them without having to work for it” (Cairns, 2017, p.133). There is a misconception that millennials do not work hard, are addicted to praise, have a lack of respect for authority and are more entitled than any previous generation. When in reality they have to work harder due to the loss of entitlements compared to previous working generations. For instance, when Sedef got her dream internship at CMI she was grateful to

Teenagers used to think of others; however that is not how it is now. In the song “Don’t let me Down” the lyric “Hurry up now I need a miracle” is one example of teenagers being narcissists. I think that this lyric in the song proves that we are narcissist because it shows that we all think about ourselves more than we care for others. In that lyric it is saying that I need a miracle, this implies that teenagers are thinking about themselves. This evidence connects to Dr. DeWall’s statement by proving that we all might be narcissists.

“Millennials’ behavior is totally functional for the world they inherited” (para 12). I find this to

Overall, his contention is that we have become an overly “narcissistic” society because we spend entirely too much time focusing on our image and ourselves. Why? Because the article’s evidence states that in 2014 a collective 93 million instagram posts were posted daily. And all of this is in spite of the fact that we carry an “… incredibly sophisticated networked computer and camera with power to immediately connect with anyone around the world”. What about our inability to communicate without our phones? What about social awkwardness because a lack of the ability to speak face to face? Allegedly, we waste our ability to become as successful of writers, scientists, and filmmakers as great as famous americans such as Toni Morrison, Albert Einstein and Steven Spielberg because we spent too much time using social media. These statements and statistics are fairly convincing; however, David Weinberger also makes some good points to argue that we are not becoming less intelligent because of our

This paper will aim to define narcissistic personality disorder as a whole. The document will cover the topics of symptoms, prevalence, and contributing factor. In addition to covering the general description of the disorder the paper will present a case study to provide a clearer image of the parameters of NPD. 2 scientific studies will be presented in order to offer empirical data regarding NPD and to add knowledge recently acquired through experimentation.

In addition to the more tangible effects on adolescents, in one section of the article Ms. Turkle delves into the psychoanalytic ramifications; how this tethered lifestyle can affect narcissism; how it applies to Erik Erikson’s theories of child development, and in the end concludes that “By Erikson’s standards, the selves formed in the cacophony of online spaces are not protean but juvenile. Now I suggest that the culture in which they develop tempts them into narcissistic ways of relating to the world.”(Turkle 436). I find these worries unmoving. What Erik Erikson would make of modern connected society

This article, published by CNN, covers a topic that was thrown into the spotlight following the release of the fourth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM IV, and has been heavily discussed as the release date of DSM V approaches. The article, which is supported by anti-DSM experts, theorizes that the medical community is over diagnosing patients with mental illnesses at an unprecedented rate. Unfortunately, the experts provide an extensive amount of bias to the article, which is clear by examining the antithesis to their arguments. Three clear examples of bias are the statements of Dr. Carroll, Kelli Montgomery, and the articles overall focus on the DSM. The bias

I believe two of the Western trends that play key roles in the rise of narcissistic behavior starts with how children are being raised and the effect fast-growing social media has on these kids. As a parent, I try to read various, recent articles on the topic of raising children and how/what I should change to 1.) become a better parent, and 2.) raise a healthy, self-sufficient child. As I compare my parenting style with that of how I was raised, there are some similarities, but mostly differences. Millennials are accused of praising their children too much and allowing them to do whatever they want. Parents are quoted saying, “I try not to say no...” stating too much control can weigh down a child’s creativity

Sinek says that there are four reasons why Millennials have such a selfish attitude. The first point he gives out is parenting. Parents made millennials feel really important and special. He says that millennials can obtain everything they want because their parents spoil them too much. Simon Sinek states, “You take this group of people and they graduate and they get a job and they’re thrust into the real world and in an instant they find out they are not special, their mom’s can’t get them a promotion, that you get nothing for coming in last and by the way you can’t just have it because you want it. In an instant their entire self image is shattered.” (Sinek, 2016) Sineks point is that parents make their children feel empowered but then then they start work and realise that they can not always get what they want. The next point he makes is technology. Millennials these days are caught up on their phone with a lot of different social media accounts. Sinek observes that millennials use social media to hide the fact that they are actually empty inside. He agrees that technology is very addicting and it makes them feel good. Sinek says, “An entire generation now has access to an addictive, numbing chemical called dopamine, through cellphones and social media, while they are going through the high stress of adolescence. “ (Sinek 2016) He makes it clear that millennials aren't able to handle their feelings because instead of getting help from people, they turn to their technology. Millennials depend too much on their devices and always rely on them for almost every single task. The third thing that affects this