" Puberty may reboot the brain and behaviours" interesting article in Science News for Students

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www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/puberty-brain-behaviors-childhood-stress-trauma

Puberty it seems can maybe help children who have suffered childhood trauma. Interesting.

Thanks for sharing this, it's really interesting. Doesn't Dr Jessica Taylor argue early trauma isn't destiny. I think puberty is really poorly understood because of it's obvious link to bodily changes, another reason to be careful about interfering with the process.

Yes, if puberty fulfils this function, what happens if you chemically arrest it?

Chemically stopping puberty would surely cement the idea that its traumatic and is a disease that should be stopped at all costs.

No other trauma support/therapy is about freezing that moment in time and never moving on from it is it?

This gives me a ray of hope for DC1. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting. I was speaking to a friend who is a psychiatrist and he also told me that puberty often irons out identity issues in young people. It’s such an important phase to go through. Ties in with Erikson’s life stages: Identity vs Confusion, when teenagers for their ‘final’ identity, or face a quandry.

Yes certainly with GI issues puberty is an important stage and left alone they come out the other side accepting who and what they are.

Which begs the question of who benefits from blocking that process because its not the child.

Puberty is also vital for intellectual development, as well as many other features of normal adulthood e.g. bone strength. It doesn't matter how many times I think about it, I will never stop being amazed that we have been preventing children from undergoing it. We have done them lifelong harm, and I hope to see every HCP involved erased from their professional register ('struck off'), and sued to bankruptcy.

I think also there should be some kind of demographic study.

Are children who's background leaves them at risk of things like being married off, having their lives restricted etc the ones turning up and asking for blockers.

Have we heard of unicef or action aid delivering boxes if Lupron amongst the vital medications and sanpro they are providing fir those in need.

And those children would have very very good reasons for wanting to delay the inevitable. Like being unabe to attend school and continuing the cycle of poverty

What is it about our kids in these developed countries who are apparently unable to deal with normal biological processes to the point it needs halting.

( and yes I know there are many theories such as trauma and autism and abuse and homophobia etc ) but even kids who have none of these issues, they are all being caught up in this . What are we doing thats failing our children so badly that drugs like this are even contemplated

I will read this later, I work with young people who have suffered Acute Childhood Experiences and this looks interesting.

And what happens if you delay it and then you chemically alter the body to go through the opposite sex's version of puberty?

You can’t go through the opposite sex’s puberty. It isn’t possible. Instead a teenager gets side effects of drugs that can superficially mimic it: e.g. breast tissue growth in males, facial hair in females. But it isn’t puberty of the opposite sex. Puberty is sexual maturation. So a male can’t sexually mature as a female with oestrogen because a male doesn’t have ovaries in which ova can mature, and a uterus and vagina that can mature. Equally a female can’t sexually mature with the effects of testosterone because there are no testes to enlarge and no sperm to mature.

Any child who has been on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones has a prepubertal body with drug side effects.