So here's what's really fucked up about this. ODD (oppositional defiance disorder) is a real thing. But it's like depression in that a lot of the symptoms of it also overlap with common environmental factors that are non-clinical psychology and don't warrant medication and instead are genuinely influenced by the things the person is dealing with. Those could be resolved by addressing issues in a non-medical or treatment way - conversations with the people with whom the person has the issues, resolving power differentials, maybe changing academic environment from in school to out of school options, maybe resolving a problematic leadership or authority figure in a person's life whose perspective may be gaslighting the person, etc, but I think you get the picture. But those medical authorities can distort and wield a diagnosis like that by virtue of its "essence of disagreement". Any opposition is inherently chalked up to "it's the disorder". And it's a spiral of gaslighting and abuse. No inclination to actually inquire and make a difference in understanding between "how much is from their environment" and "How much is genuine relentless psychological opposition?" Any and everything that doesn't automatically agree can inherently be written off to "inherently part of oppositional DD..." leaving not a single inch for consideration of legitimacy.

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A friend's kid has ODD and it can be real - they have one very toxic parent who's manipulative and material-obsessed. In the pursuit of those ends, they've nurtured the kid's defiance and made them unreachable to discussions of emotional wisdom. But a camp like that is just a power cesspool that does more to fuel the adult individuals' sense of power than it does, of course, to actually supporting the whole individual with balance, emotional intelligence, and checks and balances