rivka

Irrelevant to the interpersonal issues at hand, I'd be interested to hear from you in a semi-professional sense about diagnosis trends in autism and ADHD. I used to work in an academic field that was trendy as hell, depsite being based in hard facts, so I don't think medicine is necessarily immune to fads, despite all the good will and interest in scientific evidence in the world. As an uninformed observer only of news about health, I do see a trend towards expanding definitions of mental health problems (in children and adults) to define as illness behaviors and personalities that would once have fallen on the quirky/gloomy/antisocial end of normal. And I say this as a woman on anti-depressant meds for 4 years after crippling episodes of depression and anxiety who wonders often enough if I really merit them, so perhaps that gives you a sense of the emotionally ingrained nature of my skepticism.