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Yup. From the article:

> Finally, a psychiatrist told Demsky about a condition that affects a growing number of students with severe anxiety: school avoidance.

That's not a "condition" and shouldn't be de facto medicalized. Treat anxiety when it doesn't match reality, sure, but there are plenty of perfectly logical reasons for students to resist school as it currently exists.



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