This news article exists because it’s an exception, not the rule.
Don’t confuse this with normal or common treatment. Even one case is too many, obviously, but it’s not the norm.
What are these normal treatments? Pharmaceuticals like Ritalin and Adderall? Asking because I don’t know not that I’m taking this anywhere, but when people talk about behavioral control of children acting out of line with some kind of “norm”, I’m uneducated as to what the norm is or what the status quo for this is.
What I do know (via anecdotes of having sister who works in childhood behavioral science), medicating kids was for a long time the norm and is being harshly critiqued and challenge more recently, but I admit not really bothering to look into this much further.
My mom bought into this stuff in the 1990s and I never had proper treatment as a child. Only until I was an adult and saw a doctor myself was I properly diagnosed. The medication was a life-saver in my 20s.
As much as pro-pharma stuff is being pushed behind closed doors there's also tons of pseudoscience "appeals to nature" fallacies [1] being pushed in all public channels, where all chemicals are treated with suspicion. I wish there was more of a balance in the media, because this anti-pharma narrative is everywhere now.
I'm not surprised this manifested into anti-vaxxers. Anyone saying that medication as a solution is still treated with reverence in popular discourse is deceiving themselves. Doctors have all heard the stories by now too.
But that also doesn't mean doctors haven't played a big role in this, including those who massively over-prescribed painkillers, benzos, and antidepressants in the last few decades - which have help distract from all the real positive benefits they provide.
[0]https://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014080/my-lobotomy-howard-du...
I want to get kids soon. I hope they get a strange as I was. Stupid, funny, dangerous.
It’s time-consuming and takes awhile to learn how to tug properly, and in a certain sense can be psychologically painful to go through, but the results I’ve personally seen so far have been very encouraging.
Sorry again to hear what happened to you.
Do you have any resources or guides you recommend on restoration? I've looked in to manual tugging and some of the stretching devices. The devices don't seem practical to wear around discreetly on a day to day basis, and I haven't gotten manual technique to show results yet.
Results are very slow and I started from a very tight cut. I’m still not even at a “loose cut” level so I have quite a bit left to go.
Not sure if you’ve heard of it, but red light therapy makes a big difference in the rate of tissue expansion.
http://www.jmbe.org.tw/files/1641/public/1641-4366-1-PB.pdf
I think adding RLT to manual methods will drastically improve your results. Just a couple sessions of fairly high intensity RLT a day does wonders.
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TL;DR: like you I’m still figuring things out. But I’m pretty encouraged overall.
For those unfamiliar with the back story of the novel, Kesey conceived the plot and characters while tripping on peyote while at work in the ward...his revelation being the patients were the sane ones and the workers enforcing the rules where insane, which was a metaphor for the modern dystopia he lived in. Times Magazine described it as: "a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them."
Perpahps who was behind the board that made this decision was a group of (infiltrated) pedophiles