The Nuance

It’s Okay If You’re Not Resilient

Blaming young people’s feelings of defeat on a lack of grit is ‘simplistic and counterproductive,’ experts say

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
4 min readOct 10, 2019
Illustration: Kieran Blakey

“R“Resilience” has become a buzzword. A quick Google Scholar search brings up hundreds of recent research papers on resilience and its role in mental health. And the World Health…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.