40 Adult Problems Nobody Prepared You For

We managed to get in contact with u/Frequent-Pilot5243 and they were kind enough to have a little chat with us about their viral post.

"It indeed is a good question and people replied with a lot of honesty," the Redditor told Bored Panda. 

"As much as I would like to take the credit this isn't an original post. It is a repost; somebody had asked this question a year or year and a half ago."

Indeed, even we covered a thread that virtually asks the same question.

But the answers that this one has received make it a totally new discussion.

"I didn't expect it to blow up like this," u/Frequent-Pilot5243 said.

But some of these issues probably wouldn't even arise if paid more attention to their roots. Approximately 3 in 4 adult or young adult children who experienced a mental health challenge indicated at least some of the challenges occurred before the age of 18, and approximately half of them said that their parents never sought treatment for them, while approximately three quarters said that they wished their parents had done so.

Of these folks, approximately 67% said it was because they would not have suffered so much during their teenage years, approximately 66% said that they would be better equipped to handle their current problems, and approximately 64% said it would have better prepared them for adulthood.

So problems begin early on in our personal journeys. “Transitioning into adulthood is enough of a struggle. No one should have to battle their mental health at the same time,” Debbie Thomas, EdD, APRN, based in Louisville, Kentucky, explained the numbers in a statement.

If only we were better at noticing them...