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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]

Teen DD - 17 and a senior was just telling me this the other day and she feels while many have issues, some of her friends seem to be creating them for themselves. One friend is now using the word "anxious" all the time in her vocabulary and spends a lot of her free time on Tumblr. She and so many of the girls have decided they are bisexual - more than you'd think is statistically the norm. DD feels like all of this is "trending".

I feel like it's much worse than the 80s when I was in HS. Yes there were kids with issues but nothing like the numbers of kids and what I hear about today from our teens plus also there seems to be way more kids with special needs/ADD etc these days.

Social media plays a huge and detrimental role especially in promoting cutting and crazy fads and so on. I read the articles on Snapchat, Buzzfeed etc and they try to normalize every sort of deviant behavior out there and make it seem okay or like something everyone is doing. Ugh!  I feel so sorry for teens today. [/quote]

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