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The Most Stressed Out Generation

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The Most Stressed-Out Generation? Young Adults

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The latest survey shows stress is on the decline overall but still hover above healthy levels, especially for young adults. In the national Stress in America survey, an annual analysis by Harris Interactive for the American Psychological Association, 35% of adults polled since 2007 reported...

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https://www.claudiablackcenter.com/blog/item/8-three-challenges-facing-young-adults

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Doll test - The effects of racism on children (ENG)

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Doll test - The effects of racism on children (ENG)

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Doll test - The effects of racism on children (ENG)

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https://youtu.be/IlV7RhT6zHs
So, some of you may laugh at this video, because you're just not a fan of hers, but I think she embodied exactly what Emerging Adulthood is. They're not quite gone but not there yet and she just wants more time to know how to assimilate.

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Hello Community here is a ling to a teen parent program in my community

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Pregnant and Parenting Teens - Mendocino County Office of Education

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Mendocino County Office of Education is aware of the requirements for accessibility for all. MCOE is currently working with a partner to make the appropriate changes to our website and ensure compliance for all.

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I'm usually a quick learner, but for some critical life lessons, I didn't even start the learning process until my late twenties. How much easier, happier and more joyful might my life have been if I'd just learned these lessons sooner? So, to my 20-year-old self, here's some advice:

1. Criticizing others won't make you feel better. It just won't, OK? In truth, even though you don't realize it, it's actually making your relationship with yourself and those around you worse. Every critique you carelessly toss around sets the bar that much higher for yourself and the people in your life. Every time you expect perfection from someone else, you force that standard on yourself. It's a standard you can never meet. But you will struggle for years to get there. And I'm not just talking big critiques. Something as simple as "She looks really bad in light yellow, why does she wear that color?" or "God, that stranger is a crappy driver," or "I can't believe she's dating him again." People are on their own paths. Just accept it and focus on your journey.

2. Quit mocking people having fun and just join in. In other words, quit taking yourself so seriously. You know those silly people who wear crazy outfits to the football games, or people who have big love fests at Phish shows or any other group of people who do something cheesy or ridiculous for fun? You mock them and pretend that you're so much more sophisticated or world-wise or mature. In truth, you're jealous. You see the joy on their faces and you wish you were with them. Stop mocking them and try joining them instead. You might feel that joy on your face. And you might love it.

3. You are what you eat. Let's be honest: You eat pure crap. I know you think you're young and healthy and none of it matters, but it does. Every bite or (binge) drink you take matters. "You are what you eat" isn't just a catchy phrase; your body is made up of the things that you eat. You're forming bad habits that your 30-year-old self is going to have to struggle for years to break. Just stop. Please?

4. You control your emotions, not the other way around. I know what it feels like: Once the anger or the desperation or the fear start, they take over. They're more powerful than you are and you have no choice but to ride them out, letting them dictate not only your internal experience, but your behavior as well. You can't help it that in anger you lash out, that in sadness you withdraw, that in fear you give up. How can you fight against such powerful emotions? Let me tell you: That's bull. You are in control. Emotions are a choppy sea, but you're driving the boat. You can't necessarily make them stop, but you can choose how you react to them. This is, I think, the hardest part of growing up: You have to learn how to have your emotions without letting them have you.

5. Money can't buy you happiness, but love and gratitude can. You're so busy focusing on the things that you don't have -- yet -- that you can't take even one moment to be grateful for the things you do have. You're so focused on material wealth and academic success and a prestigious career and the life you think you're supposed to live that you have no room for finding your passion. You have no room for loving the life you actually have. I can tell you, from my vantage point, that you will reach all of the goals that you're striving so hard to achieve. And none of it will make you happy. And when the house, cars, degrees, fancy jobs and picture-perfect marriage all leave you feeling empty, you'll be left adrift in a sea of meaninglessness as you desperately try to figure out where you went wrong.

Let me give you a hint: None of that crap matters. No external circumstance can bring you internal peace. What matters is that you fill your life with immense gratitude for each moment as you live it, and that you fill your soul with love for every single thing that makes up this beautiful and incredible universe. From that, all else will follow.

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I'm usually a quick learner, but for some critical life lessons, I didn't even start the learning process until my late twenties. How much easier, happier and more joyful might my life have been if I'd just learned these lessons sooner? So, to my 20-year-old self, here's some advice: 1.

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Richard Schwartz and Jacqueline Olds know a lot about love. These Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors and couples therapists study how love evolves and, too often, how it collapses. They have also been happily married for nearly four decades.

Love may well be one of the most studied, but least understood, behaviors. More than 20 years ago, the biological anthropologist Helen Fisher studied 166 societies and found evidence of romantic love-the kind that leaves one breathless and euphoric-in 147 of them. This ubiquity, said Schwartz, an HMS associate professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., indicates that "there's good reason to suspect that romantic love is kept alive by something basic to our biological nature."

Rewarding ourselves with love

In 2005, Fisher led a research team that published a groundbreaking study that included the first functional MRI (fMRI) images of the brains of individuals in the throes of romantic love. Her team analyzed 2,500 brain scans of college students who viewed pictures of someone special to them and compared the scans to ones taken when the students looked at pictures of acquaintances. Photos of people they romantically loved caused the participants' brains to become active in regions rich with dopamine, the so-called feel-good neurotransmitter. Two of the brain regions that showed activity in the fMRI scans were the caudate nucleus, a region associated with reward detection and expectation and the integration of sensory experiences into social behavior, and the ventral tegmental area, which is associated with pleasure, focused attention, and the motivation to pursue and acquire rewards.

The ventral tegmental area is part of what is known as the brain's reward circuit, which, coincidentally, was discovered by Olds's father, James, when she was 7 years old. This circuit is considered to be a primitive neural network, meaning it is evolutionarily old; it links with the nucleus accumbens. Some of the other structures that contribute to the reward circuit-the amygdala, the hippocampus, and the prefrontal cortex-are exceptionally sensitive to (and reinforcing of) behavior that induces pleasure, such as sex, food consumption, and drug use.

"We know that primitive areas of the brain are involved in romantic love," said Olds, an HMS associate professor of psychiatry at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, "and that these areas light up on brain scans when talking about a loved one. These areas can stay lit up for a long time for some couples."

When we are falling in love, chemicals associated with the reward circuit flood our brain, producing a variety of physical and emotional responses-racing hearts, sweaty palms, flushed cheeks, feelings of passion and anxiety. Levels of the stress hormone cortisol increase during the initial phase of romantic love, marshaling our bodies to cope with the "crisis" at hand. As cortisol levels rise, levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin become depleted. Low levels of serotonin precipitate what Schwartz described as the "intrusive, maddeningly preoccupying thoughts, hopes, terrors of early love"-the obsessive-compulsive behaviors associated with infatuation.

Being love-struck also releases high levels of dopamine, a chemical that "gets the reward system going," said Olds. Dopamine activates the reward circuit, helping to make love a pleasurable experience similar to the euphoria associated with use of cocaine or alcohol. Scientific evidence for this similarity can be found in many studies, including one conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, and published in 2012 in Science. That study reported that male fruit flies that were sexually rejected drank four times as much alcohol as fruit flies that mated with female fruit flies. "Same reward center," said Schwartz, "different way to get there."

Other chemicals at work during romantic love are oxytocin and vasopressin, hormones that have roles in pregnancy, nursing, and mother-infant attachment. Released during sex and heightened by skin-to-skin contact, oxytocin deepens feelings of attachment and makes couples feel closer to one another after having sex. Oxytocin, known also as the love hormone, provokes feelings of contentment, calmness, and security, which are often associated with mate bonding. Vasopressin is linked to behavior that produces long-term, monogamous relationships. The differences in behavior associated with the actions of the two hormones may explain why passionate love fades as attachment grows.

In addition to the positive feelings romance brings, love also deactivates the neural pathway responsible for negative emotions, such as fear and social judgment. These positive and negative feelings involve two neurological pathways. The one linked with positive emotions connects the prefrontal cortex to the nucleus accumbens, while the other, which is linked with negative emotions, connects the nucleus accumbens to the amygdala. When we are engaged in romantic love, the neural machinery responsible for making critical assessments of other people, including assessments of those with whom we are romantically involved, shuts down. "That's the neural basis for the ancient wisdom 'love is blind'," said Schwartz.

Lasting love

If love lasts, this rollercoaster of emotions, and, sometimes, angst, calms within one or two years, said Schwartz. "The passion is still there, but the stress of it is gone," he added. Cortisol and serotonin levels return to normal. Love, which began as a stressor (to our brains and bodies, at least), becomes a buffer against stress. Brain areas associated with reward and pleasure are still activated as loving relationships proceed, but the constant craving and desire that are inherent in romantic love often lessen.

Many theories of love, said Schwartz and Olds, propose that there is an inevitable change over time from passionate love to what is typically called compassionate love-love that is deep but not as euphoric as that experienced during the early stages of romance. That does not, however, mean that the spark of romance is quenched for long-married couples.

A 2011 study conducted at Stony Brook University in New York state found that it is possible to be madly in love with someone after decades of marriage. The research team, which included Fisher, performed MRI scans on couples who had been married an average of 21 years. They found the same intensity of activity in dopamine-rich areas of the brains as found in the brains of couples who were newly in love. The study suggested that the excitement of romance can remain while the apprehension is lost.

"A state-of-the-art investigation of love has confirmed for the very first time that people are not lying when they say that after 10 to 30 years of marriage they are still madly in love with their partners," said Schwartz. In the Stony Brook study, he added, the MRI scans showed that the pattern of activity in the participants' dopamine reward systems was the same as that detected in the brains of participants in early-stage romantic love.

For those whose long-term marriage has transitioned from passionate, romantic love to a more compassionate, routine type of love, Olds indicated it is possible to rekindle the flame that characterized the relationship's early days. "We call it the rustiness phenomenon," she said. "Couples get out of the habit of sex, of being incredibly in love, and often for good reasons: work, children, a sick parent. But that type of love can be reignited." Sexual activity, for example, can increase oxytocin levels and activate the brain's reward circuit, making couples desire each other more.

That alone, she said, may be enough to bring some couples back to those earlier, exhilarating days, when all they could think about was their newfound love.
Scott Edwards is a freelance science writer based in Massachusetts.

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Richard Schwartz and Jacqueline Olds know a lot about love. These Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors and couples therapists study how love evolves and, too often, how it collapses. They have also been happily married for nearly four decades. Love may well be one of the most studied, but least understood, behaviors.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_f8DmU-gQQ

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett explaining emerging adulthood and giving a few tips to parents.

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Samantha Rovier

Interesting research on the topic...

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A new book makes the case for a phase of development between adolescence and adulthood.

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I love these guys. Such great short story (videos).

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What does it really mean to be an "adult"? And how do you get there? "Adulting" is a phase everyone goes through at some point life. You'll make it through. Huge thanks to simplehuman for partnering with us to create this video.

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http://allgroanup.com/featured/what-is-emerging-adulthood-and-why-it-explains-your-twenties/

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The challenges faced in emerging adulthood....

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I'm sure we all have been there in our lives on figuring on what now for the future.

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https://www.sociology.org/toxic-socialization/
This is an interesting article that seems to tie in the topics from the last few weeks. Could toxic socialization be the reason for the issues that emerging adults are currently facing?

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EMERGING ADULTHOOD
FEATURE

Emerging adults: The in-between age

A new book makes the case for a phase of development between adolescence and adulthood.

WEBSITE:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun06/emerging.aspx

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https://www.npr.org/2014/11/18/354196302/amid-the-stereotypes-some-facts-about-millennials

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Jeff Arnett speaking and explaining to a group, about emerging adulthood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Gzp0nIR9E

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This topic made me think of how many young adults are forced to still live at home as compared to a decade or more ago. Here is a link to an interesting article.
http://www.businessinsider.com/maps-young-adults-still-living-at-home-2017-9

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CLASS PLEASE WATCH

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Why does it take so long to grow up today? | Jeffrey Jensen Arnett | TEDxPSU