Day 1,762: fret, formative, doomscrolling, epidemic

Social scientists fret that Gen Z-ers, having spent their formative years doomscrolling and suffering from fomo, are now gripped by an epidemic of anxiety and depression.

Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z

Artwork of the day 
Greek no. 2. The various forms of the Greek fret.
Owen Jones
Style: Art Nouveau (Modern)
Series: The Grammar of Ornament (1856)
Genre: design

Word of the day 
fret: to be nervous or worried:
formative: relating to the time when someone or something is starting to develop in character:
doomscrolling: the activity of spending a lot of time looking at your phone or computer and reading bad or negative news stories:
epidemic: the appearance of a particular disease in a large number of people at the same time:

Quote of the day
“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind