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I was on the phone with my mom recently talking about my anxiety when she mentioned that three of my first cousins also had it. We joked that if she had admitted being nervous over something when she was younger, she would have been told, “You’re too young to be nervous.” She and her seven siblings would’ve been brushed off, and not because her parents were mean. That’s just how it was. My mother’s generation, the baby boomers, didn’t discuss feelings. I guess they bottled everything up or compensated in other ways. So why are so many millennials (born 1981-1996) over-the-top anxious? ....