I agree, and the author’s characterization of “excess therapeutic attention directed toward ordinary struggles” (related to ADHD) tells me a lot about their biases, and ignores that these therapies are genuinely useful and in many cases transformative. Us adults generally understand that struggle is critical for growth, but not everyone “makes it through” - would therapy have helped them with low harm, and what would the positive societal impact of that medically assisted success be?

I do hope that critiques like this become well socialized though, we need to be honest about what is real so we can make the right decisions and tradeoffs.