As a parent of a twenty year old son I seem to see and hear a great deal of negativity about life from a section of the community I tend to think should be alive with optimism and ideals. Why do you think this is happening ? I was pretty content during my teens, so were my parents. My son, who is studying psychology, remarked that it is "normal" for young people to be constantly stressed and have stress related illnesses, normal for them to wish to use drink and drugs, normal for them to fight with their parents, normal to contemplate suicide, normal to experience clinical depression. Poppycock ! Where is this nonsense coming from and why on earth should we regard it as normal ?






