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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, yeah. Record numbers of anxiety, depression, and ADHD. They're all on something.
Maybe parents should stop trying to produce little walking college application kids from the time they're 10 years old. They're all burnt out and medicated  by the time college rolls around. [/quote]

ADHD does not belong in that list. Parental pressure cannot cause ADHD.[/quote]

No it cannot cause it but parental pressure most certainly increases the end result of the diagnosis. Parents in our DMV area push very hard, even seeing multiple doctors until they get the diagnosis they want which is adhd: they want meds so the kid does better and later they want extended time on tests. ADHD is the number one most demanded diagnosis by parents. Anxiety is the most common ignored. Many of these kids have anxiety affecting their attention and do not have primary adhd. I have been in the psychiatry field for 22 years and work with local Peds groups as well as know many of the learning disability coordinators at the top schools in the area--the pressure is high and it starts in middle school when the groupings are done into different levels or when public magnet/governor school testing is about to happen. There are still doctors who diagnose it based on parent and teacher surveys rather than psychological testing, and prescribe meds. ADHD is most certainly a real diagnosis but it is not 1/3 of the population as it appears to be at some of these schools. There is a subset of parents who really push for that diagnosis to try to get meds to help the kids do better and get into/stay in the harder classes or get the extra time for the testing to get into a top high school (governors, boarding school, top private). This is not new but has rapidly increased in the past 10 years. [/quote]

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