You might not like it, but the deal that Messy has laid out is what "Annoyed" will very shortly be hearing from his college, his job, his banker and his government. Teenage angst is real, along with an exquisite sensitivity to well, everything. Confirming their over reactions is just setting them up with a pretty skewed view of the world. It's cold.

It's the job of adults to deflate the overdramatization and put "problems" like this in perspective and teach them that they have the ability to solve their own problems; either through action or...philosophy. Please do it before they arrive with their entitlement attituide as intern at my workplace, or I will. If you think this is abuse you really need to toughen up. If you feel that some injury has really been done to this kid you need to click back to the real news and compare....