I know it's behind a Paywall, but have you seen this article in the Times? www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4125848.ece
The new president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists sounds a bit ill-informed: ' â??Certain behaviours carry stigma and thereâ??s less stigma if itâ??s associated with a disorder. Often itâ??s about the avoidance of guilt. You get obvious pressure from parents: weâ??ve all been to middle-class dinner parties where so many parents seem to say their kids are mildly autistic and yet theyâ??ve just got into Oxford. And you think, â??I donâ??t really buy that oneâ?? . . . Itâ??s interesting that many of these disorders are more common in the private sector of education.â??
He added: â??When did you last hear a kid called bookish or shy? At what point do those normal traits become social phobia or Aspergerâ??s, or when does a naughty kid become ADHD? Now those are socially defined, and where psychiatry sits on those is often not where the public think.'
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Theseus · 22/06/2014 21:20
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