[garynortheast]

Thanks for the words Dave. I’d agree with you about it being difficult for teenagers now. There were pressures when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s but they were not the horrible insidious pressures of a thoroughly nasty, consumerist society being loaded on them today. Makes me so angry when I hear selfish, ignorant ar3eh0les of my generation telling the world that “kids have it so easy these days”.

I think we have got to the bottom of this particular instance. It seems to have been triggered by stress and pressure over an academic issue, namely maths, and because she was comparing her ability with her twin sister (who is a maths and physics geek).