"Compared with teenage girls who had no psychiatric disorder..."
As a former Teenage Girl, we're all pretty psycho while our hormones are going wild, we're getting boobs and zits and hair (down there!), we're obsessed with horses and the Hollywood Hunk of the Week, we're contemplating tatoos or piercings and are busy cat-fighting with the girl who WAS our Best Friend last week and is now our Sworn Mortal Enemy! (And we'll make her pay. Yes. We. Will. *Snicker*)
I'd be interested to see how they even found a control group of female teens that they thought were free of psychotic tendencies, LOL!
What? They don't use control groups to actually prove or disprove medical findings when they want a specific outcome? My bad. *Smirk*
ROTFLOL! What an apt desription of normal teenage girlhood. Why is it that some people think kids should behave like miniture adults?
We have two teenagers in the house right now. One is ADD. And she is psycho in her own way. The other one is not ADD nor ADHD. She is PSYCHO. How's that? lol They think in different ways. One is brilliant. Shockingly so. The other is very, very intelligent. Teachers love her. (when she's not being a psycho teenager.) The ADD child is every teacher's nightmare because they know how smart she is, but they cannot capture her attention long enough to get her to focus on their nonsense projects. Hubby and I probably do not help her in this regard because we have the same disdain for the DUMB assignments that serve no purpose other than giving a teacher a pretty lesson plan. ADD child reads something, learns it, and moves on. Why waste her time further? There are other more exciting things to be learned. Teen 2 loves approval, so she's more apt to complete the silly projects. The more hormonal Teen 2 becomes, however, the less interested she is in pleasing her teachers/parents. But that's another story.