The Forgotten Half of Baby Boomers: Coming of Age in the 1980s Created a Different Psychology

If you were born between 1955 and 1964, you didn't just grow up in the 1970s — you came of age in the 1980s. And that decade finished what the 1970s started. Reagan's America, the yuppie trap, 18% mortgage rates, the AIDS crisis, the second shift, and the loneliness nobody talked about. This video explores the psychology of what the 1980s really did to late baby boomers — the forgotten half of a generation that survived a brutal childhood only to walk into one of the most psychologically demanding decades in American history.