Americans are burning out earlier than ever before. Results from a new survey found 25% experience burnout before the age of 30, with Gen Z and millennials topping the list.

Leigh Richardson, a licensed counselor, said Americans are feeling burned out at rates we’ve never seen before. Especially younger adults.

“Thirty percent of them are more concerned about their financial situation,” Richardson said.

New data from “Talker Research” reveals Gen Z and millennials are burning out at just 25 years old. Something Richardson said could be a byproduct of the pandemic.

“The way you went to school and the way you went to work and the way you exercised and how you communicated with your friends, all of that changed,” Richardson said.

Beth Gifford, an adjunct professor at Cedarville University in Ohio says data from the poll did reveal a generational difference in what’s causing the most stress. For younger adults, money is the main contributor.

“We have student loan debt. We have the pressure to have the sort of housing that maybe might have come in previous generations a little bit later,” Gifford said.

Pressure she said she believes comes mainly from social media.

“Trying to obtain some obscure level of living that someone who makes their living from clicks sets up as the standard is not healthy,” Gifford said.

As for Gen X and baby boomers, the main causes of stress are politics and health.

“It is absolutely a burnout from the political chaos. From some economic worries and just the inundation of health information,” Gifford said.

When it comes to what lies ahead, the poll found a third of Americans are bracing for more stress this year while 42% remain hopeful their stress will begin to go down.

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