Jemma Spake
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
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There's this sense of what do I worry about first?
That is the first level of like mass uncertainty and mass anxiety that we're up against.
Like it just feels like the world is going through more changes now than it ever has before.
Whether that is true or not, it definitely is the pressing and dominant feeling.
The second type of anxiety that a lot of us are experiencing right now is just our anxiety about our own personal circumstances.
Like, despite what's going on in the world, it's not selfish to still care about what we're up against.
You know, for those of us just starting out in adult life, that's basically anyone under the age of 35 as far as I see it, like,
We are particularly faced with a sense of uncertainty about things that are more personal to us, about our careers, the state of our love lives, our friendships, our financial situation.
Our 20s are defined by a lack of definition, which is deeply exciting because everything is possible and also deeply stressful because we are literally staring at a blank slate and there's a lot of responsibility that comes with the beginning of something.
The very fact that we are at the beginning of our adult lives is unsettling, but also it means that we're less established, such that those two levels of anxiety we're talking about combine forces.
right?
Yes, we have that anxiety about our personal lives and what we want from our future, but it is more destabilized.
We are more destabilized by what is going on in the world.
We are more sensitive to what is changing because we probably don't have the savings of people who are older than us.
We don't have the experiences of people who are older than us.
We don't have the skill set that protects against some of the economic and sociopolitical and workplace uncertainties.
So basically, all that's just to validate what you're probably experiencing right now, which is a lot of fear.
And to say it goes without saying that our generation, our age group is more primed to be anxious than most.
And often that anxiety and that rumination is actually the only sense of control that we have.
What I think a lot of us need to be more, I don't know, more kind to ourselves about is that our anxiety is the coping mechanism right now.
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