With the year 2025 almost closing in on us and with the changing world scenarios from tariff wars, job cuts, health issues, software generations, and the ever-evolving economic world corridor, and AI making leaps and bounds, the current generation faces the most complex health issue of all the mental health issues.

From office meetings to university submissions to taking life-changing decisions, the current lot of people of the younger generation have a hard time making timely and good decisions, which hampers their overall health.

To look at it from a practical perspective, the Gen Z generation underwent 3 major events that occurred in their lifetime, the first being the Covid-19 pandemic, which cut off their social time and authentic face-to-face connection with the real world and confined them to their screens from the comfort of their homes, leading to cloudy judgments to date.

The second one is the revolution of artificial intelligence, where it constrained their minds and created a simple step formula to solve all their problems by asking their queries to a chatbot, ranging from completing their homework to random daily activities, which caused an authentic learning blockade of information, resulting in complex and radical behavior.

The 3rd and most important one, which the current generation lacks from the older and millennials, is the lack of experience, which is directly and indirectly correlated and dependent on the first 2 reasons.

The current generation is graduating, getting jobs, founding startups, and venturing into different verticals of world business, ranging from economics, management, and medical fields, but at the same time, they face the major issue of their lives, i.e., mental health.

Mental health issues are not new to the world of medical science, but were rather compromised due to a lack of knowledge, or not being well trained or informed about them.

It has been noticed that Gen Z go through anxiety, depression, trauma, and mental and emotional burnout in workplaces and office settings, making their work ethic questionable, leading to an unforeseen disaster.

The idea of seeking mental health advice and treatment was rather less before the pandemic, but has rapidly increased post the Covid-19pandemic in the younger generation.

The dynamo effect of such worldwide changing events can literally hamper and change the thinking of people affected by it; in this case, Generation Z, wherein, in the coming years, Gen Z will take over the world population and the working-class people. It can lead to downfalls of economies, financial loss, and even death in worst-case scenarios.

The good part about this issue is to stick to basics and not to compromise oneself by allowing external forces to overtake ethical thinking and overcome barriers, leading to a good overall life, and allowing their best version to evolve and gain attention and lead a healthy lifestyle.

The doctors say most of their patients are much younger and have similar complaints and issues, like not being able to get sleep, feeling anxious, and being depressed. While doctors recommend that drugs and medicines can help to a certain extent, the real answer or key to this issue is to have self-confidence. It sounds cliché, but it's rather more radical behavior.

Seek good friends, get a healthy lifestyle, make meaningful connections, eat good food, hit the gym, and make small changes to avoid a sedentary lifestyle to become a better version of yourself every day.

The impact of mental health can even have an effect on physical health to make us look and feel different and end up with diseases and stupid decisions, for which the latter face consequences.

Another significant issue that the generation needs to overlook and avoid getting themselves entangled in is the world of misinformation and disinformation. In the current age of the digital era, where FOMO—Fear of Missing Out—causes a person to go into depression, that sounds and looks very immature, but that’s the extent of complaints doctors hear from their patients.

Breakups, mood swings, ego, cloudy judgments, and not feeling valued are the most common behavioral issues noticed in the current lot of generation.

Lastly, to overcome such issues, self-confidence and self-love practices should be followed, and comparing themselves with others and relying on chatbots and algorithms to make decisions in their life should be avoided.

It takes time to overcome such complex health issues, which might take time, manpower, and a lot of emotional support to help one come back to normalcy, but as the saying goes, time heals everything, so give yourself time, allow yourself to breathe, reset, refocus, and recalibrate, and get on with your life and make a change to the society.

At the same time, governments, educational institutions, and workplaces must acknowledge this generational struggle and create stronger support systems. Collective awareness, timely interventions, and open dialogue around mental health can transform this challenge into an opportunity—ensuring Gen Z not only survives these pressures but emerges resilient, adaptive, and better prepared for the future ahead.