There are some things you just can’t explain unless you lived through them. Being a millennial means we somehow grew up in two completely different worlds. We remember life before smartphones, social media, streaming, and having the entire internet in our pockets. But we also adapted to all of it as it happened. We had…

Growing up in the ’90s and early 2000s, we didn’t always have the words for anxiety. We had “I’m Just a Kid.” We had “Numb.” We had “Welcome to My Life.” We had Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, MTV, teen movies, burned CDs, and characters who somehow seemed to understand what it felt like to be awkward, overwhelmed, left out,…