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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids have always been anxious. It's just pathologized/recognized/treated more now.

My grandfather, grandmother, and father all had severe anxiety as children. They were also all put on opiates. So it's not some new thing caused by (ugh, seriously?) vaccines.

In the past, parents tended to be much more hands-off (lots of unsupervised play time) and didn't necessarily notice the signs or get help. There's also a huge culture of medicating kids now that didn't exist in the past, and you can bet pharmaceutical companies benefit from increased "awareness" of psychiatric issues that lead to more prescriptions for their products.[/quote]

More importantly, you can bet that children benefit from getting the treatment they need. The fuck is wrong with you, pp? Are you one of these goddamned idiots who think we overmedicate children? Go crawl back under your rock.[/quote]

I think PP sounded perfectly reasonable.  You, on the other hand, sound a bit unhinged.[/quote]

Original PP here. PP who responded does sound unhinged. At no point did I say correct diagnoses or treatment was bad. What I said was that there is more awareness and treatment due to more hands-on parenting now, and there's a culture of medicating (and yes, overmedicating) kids. I think both of those things are true and nothing the fuck is wrong with me for saying so. Maybe responding PP is anxious and that's why she overreacted. I have anxiety (so do my kids, obviously it runs in the family), but found CBT to be better for me and my kids. That said, I think meds are appropriate for some -- but definitely not all -- of the kids identified as having anxiety. But to speak to OP's point, there's not a sudden explosion of anxious people being born/created, just identified/treated. And it's not vaccines (double ugh again).[/quote]

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