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Why Do Generation Internet Cause Mental Disorders?

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I come from Generation Nothing. Generation Internet-Addicted, Generation 2-cool-4- U. No one cares about a group like us. Why should they; we're seen as a group of heartless monsters that couldn't care less about ourselves, let alone anyone else. And, yeah, this world is going down the drain. At least half the people I know have serious mental disorders; at the age of fourteen, I have had to talk more people into eating, more people out of cutting, more people out of suicide, more than any average person in a previous generation did in their lifetime. We are a messed-up group of kids. We're more afraid of losing our phone than our virginity, and why shouldn't we be; it has our entire life on it. We're not afraid of actual threats 'cause we've been taught to deal with them …show more content…

We forget that our differences, standing out in a crowd, defying authority; that's what keeps us going. For instance, if I had any different skin color, and stated that aforementioned sentence about defying authority, the so-called authorities would think I was a terrorist, or in a gang, or trying to take over their whitewashed cities. Chances are, I would’ve already been shot. Even here, as I stand, anyone would think I was a silly little teenage girl who'd gotten everything she ever wanted in life and was simply going through a harmless phase, that she'd grow up to the monotony of being a suburban-stay-at-home mother with four kids and a station wagon who'd lost the ability to think for herself. Society dehumanizes everyone. I'm supposed to be this cookie-cutter print-out that gets spat out of school at eighteen and doesn't know how to function so just follows the road of life with everyone else 'cause it's easier. And, yeah, it's a way of life, but is it really living, or is it simply existing? Everyone I know has already given up on their future, 'cause dreams are just whimsical fantasies for little girls who need to grow up and face the real world.

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