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I have worked in the mental health field with teens/preteens.
Personally, I've seen amounts of anti-anxiety or psych meds prescribed to kids as young as 10/11 that are enough to put down a fully adult male.
The crazy part is that there are lots of parents who take their kid's behavior and self-diagnose it or compare it to another child's behavior then INSIST to the Dr. and any other professional that will listen, that Bobby has (for example) bipolar disorder.
Part of that comes with the "popularization" of certain disorders, too (if that makes any sense.) Ex: autism is very much in the "spotlight", these days, ergo more people tend to self-diagnose their kids with it based on like one or 2 isolated behaviors.
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