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laeshanin:
Quote from: veilchen on 2005 August 25, 22:22:58
Teenager are not physically ready for children; everything is still growing and developing. The risks of complications in teenage pregnancy is very high. Prematur birth is just one of them. 34 % of pemature birth is in the 15 - 19 year old range, as opposed to 9% in the 30 - 34 year old range. Aside from premature labor, teenagers ages 15 - 19 have increased risks of anemia and high blood pressure as well. Teenagers in that age group also are at greater risk to deliver babies with low birth weight. Those babies can suffer anything from lung and respiratory distress, vision loss, serious intestinal deficiencies, to bleeding in the brain.
An added risk is the risky behavior that teenagers are prone to engage in. They are more likely not to be mature enough to take proper care of themselves while carrying a child. The initial risk is therby increased in significant proportion.
Genetically speaking, an older mother and father are really not genetically defective parents. True, sperm and the oocyte have been manufactured/stored for a longer period of time, but it is generally surmised that if they are rendered defective, it is due to environmental forces, and not the age of the mother/father. Parents over 35 are ususally advised to consider anmiosynthesis to test for Downs syndrome, but the majority of Downs syndrome children are born to women in their twenties.
Absolutely. Many moons ago it was de rigour to grab your wife while she was a mere babe, and this happens still in some developing countries, somewhere around the age of 13. Consequently, many babies were stillborn and/or their mother died also as a complication of the pregnancy. Nubility does not mean a teen is developed enough to bear children. The other injuries that a young female of this age may receive such as fistulas between vagina and bladder don't bear thinking about.
As for genetics, well, while it is true that older women are more likely to have a child with Down's there is no other evidence to suppose that the younger you are when you breed the less likely there are to be any defects. I remain, therefore, unconvinced.
I fully advocate an education that spells out the responsibilities of bringing a life into this world. NO holds barred, as too often teens see a child as a lovely toy that can be played with then put away somewhere in a cupboard. Sex education needs extending as merely having the mechanics does not necessarily go with responsibility/understanding of the issues. What about love? Indeed, what about it?
laeshanin:
Clinical depression is an illness and a very serious one to boot!
Don't wanna hear that it's all about being lazy and disinclined to try harder, not unless that someone wants a nice hard slap...
ZephyrZodiac:
Exactly right! And as for the people who say, It's all in your head! Too darned right it's all in your head, but that doesn't mean you're imagining it!!!!
PlaidSquirrel:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 August 28, 01:55:59
Ten years ago I went to the doctor because I felt ill. I have an underactive thyroid (caused by medical treatment!) and my previous doctor had lowered my dosage, which was really why I felt ill. The doctor asked, do you think you might be depressed? to which I replied, yes, I'm depressed because I feel so ill. So I was told to go and take anti-depressants, (which don't go well with a thyroid condition!) and in no time at all I was so bad I had to give up work. All I'd actually needed was an increased thyroxine dose and a little time for it to start working! But that isn't in the medical textbooks - time is not a medicine!
I never had depression but I had massive anxiety issues caused by hyperthyroid problems. Before my surgery I had to take so many things to "fix" my thyroid levels and I was all messed up. I was on Ativan then. After the surgery I was even more messed up. They kept trying to force me (told me if I wouldn't medicate they couldn't help me) to take something like Paxil. Eventually they wore me down and I've been taking Buspar for the last 4? years. It did not "cure" my anxiety entirely but I think that eventually my body became used to the new thyroid levels and that did help. Plus turned out my para-thyroid had been damaged and I've got to take two big assed Citrical every day for the rest of my life. That fixed a lot of physical weirdness that they all assumed I was imagining (hell half the time I thought so too. I was convinced I was going insane.) before a specialist caught it.
Problem is every time I want to quit taking the Buspar I get cold feet. I did quit once for 3 days but it made me all emotional and my mom started having health problems (her thyroid was doing nothing and she was on the verge of psychosis but once she got a thyroid replacement perscription (and gave it time to work) she got all better) so I went back on it which made me feel all whacked out for 3 months. So now here I am on an anti-anxiety med I may not even need (might even be better off wthout it) but I'm too afraid of feeling like I did before to go off of it. For two years I've been thinking about going off it and always think "now is not a good time."
My point is doctors will use that crap to fix just about anything even when the real problem is staring them straight in the face and then the patient is stuck dealing with the problems the "quick fix" caused.
Although I medicate I am a strong believer in dealing with your problems the old fashioned way. Whip it's ass one day at a time.
ZephyrZodiac:
I have had to deal with thyroid problems since I was ateenager, so I can understand what you've been through. Trouble is, treatment was sort of worked out donkeys' years ago, and doctors just assume that there's no better solution! And anti-dpressants are positively dangerous, in my opinion, if your thyroid levels are below what they should be!
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