It starts with a feeling of being locked in to a commitment at work or at home: people take on jobs, rent apartments, and enter relationships, but then feel trapped in pretend adulthood. Regardless of the cause, the quarter-life crisis often spans several years and includes four typical stages. Psychologists aren’t entirely sure why it’s likely due to a mix of factors. For instance, the average age for the onset of depression has dropped from late forties or early fifties, where it was 30 years ago, to mid twenties, and it’s expected to drop further. This prolonged interim state results in a lot of pain, and some studies suggest today’s young people are suffering more than previous generations did. Moreover, as they attempt to establish their status as adults, their environment sends them mixed messages: regardless of their professional or personal achievements, they are still considered by others to be “kids,” especially before they marry and have children. When young adults get their first jobs and move into their own apartments, they’re going it alone, usually for the first time. Namely, being in your twenties is often confusing and lonely, as two independent studies published this year found.
Not how it looks in your employees’ carefree Instagram photos or your own old photo albums (remember those?), but how it really felt in the moment. As you get older, it can be tough to remember what being in your twenties was really like.
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