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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mental illness is in, didn't you hear?  High school girls are diagnosing themselves, and want to get tests these days, as so many of their friends have something wrong... it is a fad and peer following.  Not all are truly having issues, plus what qualifies as anxiety today used to be considered part of growing up and even needed to do well in school.  If you are smart you worry about how you will do on a test, with peers, but it rarely is clinical anxiety, yet parents and kids buy into this today.[/quote]

Agree to disagree. A lot of kids "diagnosing" themselves do so with limited knowledge of the mental health illnesses they're claiming. Even this can be partially attributed to social media. There's a lot of big Youtubers (and others on different platforms) out there that have made an identity out of being a "special snowflake" and claim they have anxiety disorders. While some of them are truthful, most all of them fail to distinguish the difference between having anxious feelings sometimes and having an actual anxiety disorder. Thus, many young teens jump to conclusions, thinking that because they've experienced moments of anxiousness as well, they suffer from an anxiety disorder.

That being said, there are many kids out that there are actually struggling with debilitating mental health issues. It doesn't help that we're in a generally high-pressure area. It's frustrating to many because the kids claiming mental health issues they don't actually have often inadvertently delegitimize the kids who are actually dealing with such things. [/quote]

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