This is a manufactured problem due to bad incentives. Counselors, Psychologists etc get more work, more importance and more opportunity if they “discover” a con

This is a manufactured problem due to bad incentives. Counselors, Psychologists etc get more work, more importance and more opportunity if they “discover” a condition in a child. In a way they almost encourage parents or children to identify themselves with a condition. And so something like not wanting to go to school becomes “school avoidance syndrome”. The sad part is there is probably a small percent (like 0.1%) of children who face anxiety attacks to go to school, these children give legitimacy to the condition, but then there are hundreds of cases of children who just don’t want to go to school who simply need to be forced. I say this ironically as someone who used to regularly miss a day of school in a week, because I was under high pressure to study and perform (in a developing country) and I didn’t have great friends, my life would have been objectively worse if I was diagnosed with this condition and agency was taken away from me. (I never actually improved my attendance, but I improved my exam scores so it didn’t matter)