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Heterodorx
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Adolescence and Identity Development
Joe, you said at the beginning that you're a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Can you talk a little bit about in this group of young people, the identity formation process generally? And maybe any insights that you might have about why young people would try to claim an identity or like why that's important for young people? Well, all of adolescence is about identity development. And so I think it's completely normal for teenagers to be trying out sort of different identities and identifying in different ways. But probably what isn't as normal is when it's kind of medicalised or pathologised instead of just being a normal part of their adolescence.
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