But the question of why young adults are more stressed that the average American still lingers.
Joyner, who recently relocated to Richmond, Virginia because of her job, thinks it is “because that's the time of you're life that you are trying to settle and get your self together.” Ryan Jackson, 24, believes young adults experience more stress than any other group because they have exposed to more things than a older person. He works as a Cash Lead at Comerica Park. "I stress out about not making it in life and not achieving my goals in life, he said." Being judged on my work ethic and character are also stressors." Instead, Susan Brooks, who is the blogger of Thistlethwaite, says in her blog that it’s much more serious. “[They] have had their future stolen," she said. "They are literally not making a future, putting off marriage and having children, for example, because they cannot afford it; the future of their children, too, is being taken.” In her blog on Thistlethwaite, Brooks blames their stolen future on the banking crisis that helped create the most recent Depression in America. She finds it ironic that the housing market is impacting young adults when they didn’t even own homes at the time. Additionally, jobs for many recent college graduates are hard to come by, especially in their fields. She wrote, “They write about being ‘crippled by college debt and graduated into a struggling economy…[with] little chance to find gainful employment in their chosen fields.’ They ‘take temporary jobs they are overqualified for." Whatever the causes of stress in young adults, Dr. Gardner says coping skills is important in stress management: “We all have stressors, positive or negative, but it’s about coping with them.”What are your thoughts on this issue? Do you think that millennials are more stressed out than any other group? Do you think society needs to provide better opportunities for millennials to have a better futures? Share your thoughts with us.