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'Snowflake' label is unfair - the young are just better at showing feelings, say experts
Sarah Knapton
Experts said that young people are no more emotionally brittle than older generations Credit: Image Source
The "snowflake generation" of young people who lack resilience does not exist, they are just better at admitting to their feelings, mental health experts have claimed.
In recent years, millennials have been criticised for their over-sensitivity to confrontation and unwillingness to consider controversial or opposing views.
Some universities have even introduced "safe spaces" and "cry closets", where students can retreat to get away from what has been dubbed "micro-aggression".
But speaking at a briefing ahead of the British Association for Psychopharmacology summer meeting, experts said that young people are no more emotionally brittle than older generations, they are simply “more likely to talk about anxieties and worries".
Asked by The Telegraph whether the term was "fundamentally wrong", Professor Matthew Broome, director of the Institute for Mental Health, at the University of Birmingham, said: "Probably.
"They are much more likely to talk about anxieties and worries, which is generally a good thing"Dr Rachel Upthegrove
"We have a young person's advisory group who research with us and they will choose to say things about themselves, such as 'I have a short attention span' and 'I have lots of anxiety', but I'm not sure whether it's true or different.
“I think they are resilient and have as much to give and are as tough-minded as any other generation, personally.”
Dr Rachel Upthegrove, Reader in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, Consultant Psychiatrist, of the University of Birmingham, said: “The effects of this awareness-raising and destigmatisation of mental health disorders (are apparent) in this generation, who don't see the same amount of need to hide things and to be very quiet about personal experience as my generation.
"They are much more likely to talk about anxieties and worries, which is generally a good thing if people are developing disorders and there is an intervention.
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Spouses have no right to lottery winnings
By Victoria Ward
If your spouse picks the winning numbers, you are entitled to a share of the jackpot only if he or she invests it in a shared asset such as the family home, a High Court judge ruled yesterday.
This means that, if a husband or wife simply banks their winnings, they could walk out of the relationship without having to give their other half a penny, legal experts pointed out last night.
The landmark ruling, believed to be the first on how lottery winnings should be divided in the event of divorce, was made in the case of a hotel porter who sued his former wife for a share of her £500,000 National Lottery windfall.
The man, who cannot be named, was granted a partial victory by Mr Justice Mostyn but the judge said he should not be given an equal share because lottery winnings were not "matrimonial property".
The couple were living in a council house when the woman bought the winning ticket with her own money and without her husband's knowledge more than 10 years ago.
She bought a £275,000 house in London where the couple lived with their two children for about three years. When they separated, he moved out of the property, now thought to be worth almost £500,000.
Mr Justice Mostyn said that if the couple operated a "syndicate" where both were aware that the tickets had been bought, the prize would be shared equally.
As this was not the case, the windfall would normally belong solely to the wife. But by investing a chunk of the money in the family home she had effectively converted it into matrimonial property, the judge ruled.
He said that the woman's ex–husband was not entitled to "anything like" an equal share but, having lived at the property for a short period, he should receive a lump sum of £85,000.
The ruling, announced following a private hearing in the Family Division of the High Court, was greeted with bemusement by legal experts, who said it appeared to encourage individuals to keep their assets separate from their partners.
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