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To: Poet who wrote (81)	2/28/2002 12:33:38 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I suspect so. It depends some on how pushy the parents are, and on the personality of the campus hotshot. I don't mean to say that no one successful could be happy. But I doubt that it is widely so, because they usually have the sort of personalities that go with becoming anorexic. An anorexic can stand there in front of the mirror looking like an inmate at Dachau and think she is too fat. In the same way, a lot of these achievers do not feel confident, even after getting awards and praise, and have a need for constant validation. I read an article, I think in the Washington Post, about kids at Harvard that noted that a lot of them seemed to have a black hole that they filled with external recognition of achievements, constantly restless. If your parents yell at you for only getting 5 A's; or make you join a bunch of clubs when you would rather stay home and read; or hector you about why you didn't get the presidency of the Keyettes, you will probably be a mess........