We don't get sick or stay well by ourselves. The people closest to us affect every aspect of our health—and our own well-being affects theirs. TOM BEGAN ACTING up when he was 3 years old. He would refuse to go to bed and insist on having the television on all night. His mother, worried that Tom might have ADHD, took him to the family physician, who referred him to a specialist at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in London for an assessment. Psychologists went to nursery school to observe the little boy and grew perplexed. Tom played quietly with other children and attended carefully to lesson tasks. Nursery teachers said they considered him developmentally advanced for his age. "It was clear this boy was a very different child at nursery than he was at home," says Sheila Redfern, a child psychologist at the service to which Tom was referred. What accounted for this discrepancy?
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