Can we have a conversation about how weird it is that we just assume that "teenage rebellion" is supposed to look like clinical depression?https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1137410276490301440 …
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We treat kids and young adults in ways that could reasonably be expected to produce great stress and statistically higher levels of depression and anxiety, and then talk about it like kids are just inherently neurotic. Christ.
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I shut off my own lights pretty early. Put in therapy at age 14; internalized "I need therapy," and had a terrible therapist to boot; regressed to a sort of part-time agoraphobia. Parent had the brilliant idea to pay a kid to hang out with me, which of course she quickly revealed
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If anyone regularly fucked with me like that today, yeah, I'd probably need to be on some kind of medication
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If u pointing 2 parents that follow the current trend of pushing mostly structured activities & achievements, esp ones the parents did or idealize, yep.
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