Abigail Shrier, a US journalist and author known for her take on gender ideology, faced a bewildering situation when her 12-year-old son was subjected to a mental health screening at an urgent care clinic . This incident highlights the broader issue of overdiagnosis and the medicalization of normal childhood behaviors . Shrier argues that there's an alarming trend of diagnosing and medicating children for problems that might be part of normal growing pains .