7- Seeking self-esteem through surgery
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/fashion/15skin.html
Newspaper: The New York Times
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: December 22, 2008
The rigors of being a teenager nowadays mark the way to think of many generations of teenagers. One of the new trends imposed by some adolescents is the discomfort with their bodies. Teenagers try to quench their disconformities by undergoing to plastic surgery.
This Plastic culture is increasing more and more due to the actual need to be accepted by their pairs. Although many male adolescents consider the possibility to change something on their bodies and visiting a plastic surgeon, it is more frequent that girls do so. What really catches the attention to some doctors is that adolescents in their puberty between twelve and sixteen go to their place asking for breast augmentation, liposuction rhinoplasty and otoplasty. But much more surprising it is the fact that these teenagers have the support of their parents. For this reason, may specialists ask parents to consider what they do and ask them to talk to their children since most of them have no grown up yet. They should speak to their children that there are other ways to discover their self esteem rather than a scalpel finding it.
Many cases of teenagers with post operation problems emerge everyday in many clinics since the teenagers go through a temporary depression after seeing their mutation to adulthood. But more dramatic it is the possible negative effects these surgeries have on their bodies ranging from anaesthesia effects up to the rejection of silicon implants. Parental support is essential for them to overcome this difficult period of their lives in which they consider surgery a form to belong to a groups or socially accepted. Adolescents must change their attitude of low self-esteem which leads them to do actions that later they would regret.
Another point to consider is the vague concept of beauty nowadays. It has turned to be something ephemeral disregarding the beauty of the soul. Some doctors emphasize this when many teenagers go to their places to ask for a plastic surgery. Doctors appeal the help pf parents and the understanding from the adolescent.
To sum up, adolescents should be guided and helped if necessary with their low self-esteem. And beauty is a concept that should be reconsidered and revised but from a different perspective at least different from the one that is coined and thought to be the standard nowadays. Unfortunately, it is this last one which is widely spread among adolescents and makes them want to follow it no matter the costs.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/fashion/15skin.html
Newspaper: The New York Times
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: December 22, 2008
The rigors of being a teenager nowadays mark the way to think of many generations of teenagers. One of the new trends imposed by some adolescents is the discomfort with their bodies. Teenagers try to quench their disconformities by undergoing to plastic surgery.
This Plastic culture is increasing more and more due to the actual need to be accepted by their pairs. Although many male adolescents consider the possibility to change something on their bodies and visiting a plastic surgeon, it is more frequent that girls do so. What really catches the attention to some doctors is that adolescents in their puberty between twelve and sixteen go to their place asking for breast augmentation, liposuction rhinoplasty and otoplasty. But much more surprising it is the fact that these teenagers have the support of their parents. For this reason, may specialists ask parents to consider what they do and ask them to talk to their children since most of them have no grown up yet. They should speak to their children that there are other ways to discover their self esteem rather than a scalpel finding it.
Many cases of teenagers with post operation problems emerge everyday in many clinics since the teenagers go through a temporary depression after seeing their mutation to adulthood. But more dramatic it is the possible negative effects these surgeries have on their bodies ranging from anaesthesia effects up to the rejection of silicon implants. Parental support is essential for them to overcome this difficult period of their lives in which they consider surgery a form to belong to a groups or socially accepted. Adolescents must change their attitude of low self-esteem which leads them to do actions that later they would regret.
Another point to consider is the vague concept of beauty nowadays. It has turned to be something ephemeral disregarding the beauty of the soul. Some doctors emphasize this when many teenagers go to their places to ask for a plastic surgery. Doctors appeal the help pf parents and the understanding from the adolescent.
To sum up, adolescents should be guided and helped if necessary with their low self-esteem. And beauty is a concept that should be reconsidered and revised but from a different perspective at least different from the one that is coined and thought to be the standard nowadays. Unfortunately, it is this last one which is widely spread among adolescents and makes them want to follow it no matter the costs.
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