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covid19updater · 3 years ago

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COVID19 Updates: 08/24/2021

Iowa: Iowa school district delays school start due to staff COVID-19 outbreak LINK

US: The US could have the pandemic under control by spring of 2022 if the "overwhelming majority" of the population gets vaccinated, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Monday. LINK

India: #COVID19 | Kerala reports 24,296 new cases, 173 deaths and 19,349 recoveries today; Test positivity rate at 18.04%

UK: New cases by day in Scotland since 08/09:

2021-08-24: 4323

2021-08-23: 3189

2021-08-22: 3190 2021-08-21: 3464 2021-08-20: 3613 2021-08-19: 3367 s021-08-18: 2531 2021-08-17: 1815 2021-08-16: 1567 2021-08-15: 1498 2021-08-14: 1383 2021-08-13: 1542 2021-08-12: 1525 2021-08-11: 1498 2021-08-10: 1032 2021-08-09: 851

Florida: 32-yo #Florida Polk County Sheriff's Deputy Christopher Broadhead has died of #COVID19. Sheriff Grady Judd said ~50 deputies have #COVID19 & at least 4 are hospitalized LINK

World: The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines LINK

US: US covid hospitalizations reached nearly 96,000 today. That's 74% of pandemic peak, despite some recent reduction in rate of rise (and it isn’t even fall yet)

RUMINT (US): I have a friend who just tested positive. She's vax'd and her household has VERY little exposure. She and husband work from home and son is virtual school. They only do curbside pickup for groceries. She 1st lost taste/smell then started forgetting things and mixing up words. She was sure she couldn't possibly have covid but had someone pick up home tests. Her husband tested neg. The only exposure is husband took son to a covid safe appointment last week. Fever is 99. Worst part is major brain fog. This is getting WILD and scary

Israel: Are we doomed? Israel's Prime Minister is crazy (or an idiot): "People who received two vaccine shots walk around feeling like they are protected... they don't understand that the second vaccine has faded against the "Delta" - they must quickly get vaccinated with the 3rd dose!". Israel government next outrageous step: The "Green passport" will be valid only for 6 months from the moment you received the 2nd shot! Tomorrow the director of the iMoH will decide whether the booster shots will be permitted/coerced for 30+ people(or for the entire population?!)

Florida: Florida’s COVID-19 resurgence: State reports 42,143 new cases and 726 new deaths over two days LINK

US: U.S. COVID update: 253K new cases as many states, including Florida, dump weekend backlogs - New cases: 253,182 - Average: 158,238 (+8,764) - In hospital: 95,743 (+1,556) - In ICU: 23,994 (+496) - New deaths: 1,312

Singapore: All 62 Covid-19 cases detected among migrant workers from the North Coast Lodge dormitory in Woodlands on Monday (Aug 23) were fully vaccinated, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Tuesday.

Louisiana: A tense standoff in Slidell, Louisiana, over mask mandates is one of dozens that have unfolded at local school board meetings across the US in recent weeks as schools debate how to return to in-person instruction amid the resurgent threat of the Delta variant;

Hawaii: Hawaii’s Governor has asked that visitors & residents reduce travel to the islands, while the state struggles to control the spread of Delta variant. Gov David Ige said on Monday local time that he wants to curtail travel to Hawaii through to the end of October;

World: #BREAKING US VP Kamala Harris' trip to Hanoi delayed due to 'health incident': embassy

UK: +30,838. That is 4k more cases than this time last week. 174 new deaths. The most since early March.

Israel: The Ministry of Health of Israel announced that today, Tuesday, that 9,831 new cases of coronavirus were diagnosed yesterday. This is the highest figure recorded since last January, and almost the most cases ever for a single day. The infection rate is currently 6.63%. Currently, there are 72,572 active cases of COVID-19 nationwide, including 1,124 who are hospitalized. The number of patients in serious condition is 678. Of this number, 168 are in critical condition and 123 are intubated on artificial respirators.

Japan: JAPAN WILL EXTEND THE COVID STATE OF EMERGENCY TO HOKKAIDO AND SEVEN MORE PREFECTURES

World: JUST IN - Pfizer CEO says #COVID19 vaccine-resistant variant likely to emerge, but the big pharma company would be able to turn around a "variant-specific" new mRNA jab within 3 months (Fox)

Ohio: After 8 fully-vaccinated family members get COVID, Miami Valley woman still encourages vaccines LINK

Arkansas: BREAKING: There are no empty ICU beds left in Arkansas, according to Gov. Asa Hutchinson. LINK

Tennessee: Nashville public schools reported 395 students and 67 teachers tested positive for COVID in the last week. LINK

Alabama: "Per the Alabama Hospital Association, the state currently has 1,536 staffed ICU beds and 1,589 ICU patients. That means the state’s ICU bed deficit has ballooned to 53." LINK

California: LA COVID-19 Breakthrough Cases Climb As Young Adults Drive Spread LINK

Florida: Orange County Public Schools in Florida reported 400 students + teachers have tested positive for COVID overnight. LINK

Canada: British Columbia: As of Aug 25, masks will be mandatory in all indoor public spaces for people 12+, to help slow COVID-19 transmission and help prepare for the fall respiratory illness season. This applies to everyone, regardless of vaccination status. LINK

Op/Ed: Doctor: My extreme confidence in effectiveness of vaccines was misplaced. It was based largely on how well they performed initially in Israel, which is nearly fully vaccinated. The recent data there is horrible with even deaths now picking up.

RUMINT (Florida): My son went back to school yesterday for his senior year after missing the last 1.5 years of in person edumication. He was nervous but loved it and even more so today....he did say prepare to get sick (even though we got a vax) as the halls were so packed between classes that kids could barely move. Did report that everyone appeared to be following mask protocols at least, and outdoor lunchtime with friends (which they all do need)....but his exact words were: "PREPARE TO BE SICK". Only 2 days in and not heard of any reported cases yet....I say give it week. They have enacted strict seating charts so that if someone does get sick, they ONLY toss out temporarily those other kids sitting immediately around the infected one instead of the entire class like last year (but for each class the infected kid was in)...and there is currently NO plan in place for those forced to quarantine from school for 10 days to be able to at least stay up on the classes missed via ZOOM watching (not interactive ZOOM like last year...no ZOOM at all!). Just a 10 day paid vacation from school...oh, and they will have to keep up on their own apparently. I will provide an update on this after Labor Day unless all hell breaks loose before then....mega sigh.

Georgia: Nearly 2K Georgia children testing positive for COVID-19 a day on average. School districts in metro Atlanta are reporting that over 13,000 children and teens have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the school year. LINK

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a-mentalhealth-universe-blog · 7 years ago

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I Miss The Old Me

In my final year of college, aged 17/18 I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life. Going to university is what you’re pushed towards these days, pushed by staff at college and in my case by my family. My parents pushed me not on purpose, but it was clearly the future for me that they wanted, I also felt some pressure coming from the fact my two older siblings had been to large universities and gained top degrees. I applied to a number of universities in the North of England despite home being far away in the South West. I ended up with an unconditional offer for one of the uni’s I had really liked the look of and found myself incredibly excited.

Fresher’s week rolled around and it seemed I’d hit the jackpot, I had six flatmates and they seemed like lovely people and the flat next door where also keen to join in. I’m in my third year now and can confirm that two of the guys from my flat and the flat next door have become my best friends. We all went out for every night of fresher’s week and many nights for the next few weeks after that, I can’t remember specifically if it was at the end of fresher’s week or sometime the week after that things became a little strange. I’ve had what I now know to have been small episodes of depression before, but what hit me in those first few weeks was something very new to me. During college I had self-harmed, not majorly or very often, just small scratches in places usually well hidden. It’s not that I wasn’t happy, I was, I loved my college years and I think back on them as the greatest years of my life so far. This episode that hit me early in first year made me long to hurt myself like nothing else. So I did. I’d go on a night out, have a good time and then return to my room and pull out my pen knife and cut across my wrist. The reason why was quite terrifying for me, it is a fairly long story but I feel the need to explain it all so please bear with it. When I finished secondary school I got my first major taste of how cruel life could be, I’d just finished my year 11 exams and felt positively about how I’d done in them, I was looking forward to the summer ahead in which I was going to a music festival with a huge group of friends and my then girlfriend, I was also going away on holiday with ‘the lads’ and looking forward to many parties followed by the exciting prospect of starting college. It was just a few days before the festival and a day or two after my final exam that my parents broke the news to me that my mum had been diagnosed with breast cancer and would be going to hospital whilst I was away on my lads holiday. I can’t explain the feeling that came over me the evening I found out. I did what I often do when I felt down and went for a walk, I’m lucky to live in the middle of the countryside surrounded by farmland, forests and rivers, it was on this walk that I made the realisation that I believe triggered my first episode of depression and has never quite let me free ever since. My mum’s cancer was my fault. This sounds impossible I know and I am also aware that there is no way that what I’m about to say makes it my fault but I still blame myself. A few months before the news about my mum I liked school very much and had a number of great friends but I just existed in that school, I wanted to stand out, be more noticeable or special in some way, maybe in a way that made me more interesting. Then I considered that if something horrible happened to me, or my family, like it does in many films, there would be a happy ending for me as those people in films always go through something terrible and end up being noticed. I was instantly ashamed by this thought, I wouldn’t dream of seeing anyone I love suffer, having now had therapy I’ve been told passing thoughts like this aren’t unnatural. But anyway, I blamed myself and that’s a lot to carry. Importantly, my mum pulled through and has regular check-ups and passes clear every time but that summer was a lonely time, I wasn’t myself at the festival, lost my girlfriend but managed to hold it together for the holiday with my friends. The rest of the summer I isolated myself, for some reason I couldn’t tell my friends what had happened and rather than pretending to be happy and listening to their petty troubles I kept it all to myself. When I got back from my holiday and my mum was in hospital I’d sneak out of my house in the middle of the night, walk through fields in pitch black and lie down under the stars, it was my first taste of true loneliness. During that time and throughout college I had some nightmares of myself with cancer, I’d dream about staring at myself in a mirror, just a few strands of hair left on my head, skin grey and clinging to my thin and fragile body, eyes empty and as grey as my skin. This is the image that came to life when I started uni and it drove me mad. Instead it wasn’t just there in my dreams; I could see it, this ghostly image of myself right before my eyes everywhere I went. It brought back the guilt of my mum’s cancer and made me feel even more guilty thinking I was more worried for me than her, and so I hurt myself, several times. One night, when completely drunk, a flat mate of mine noticed my wrist and had a chat with me, as drunk as I was I let her into a few details and so she took my pen knife and I promised I wouldn’t hurt myself again, the second she left my room I put my fist through a photo frame smashing the glass and tearing up my knuckles, I then grabbed a shard and drove it into my wrist. For one of the first times in years I cried properly, scared of what had happened to me, convinced it wouldn’t end and seeing no solution. I had barely cried when I had found out about my mother, my grief was real but crying wasn’t my solution, that night at uni was terrifying. The next night we went out again and someone had heard that there was a great view of the city at the top of a public car park, so after the club we went up there, I strolled around the edge of the roof by myself and leant over the edge and looked at the drop to the solid tarmac below, I don’t think I need to specify the thought that went through my mind at that moment and, admittedly being drunk didn’t help, but I don’t think I’ve even admitted to myself how close I came to doing the last thing I would have ever done in my life that night. That night I cried again, all night, I spent the next few days alone and knew things had to change. Eventually they did, they improved a bit, truthfully I think I’ve just learnt to live with the thoughts I have.

When university itself started it certainly wasn’t what I thought it would be, I find it very difficult to explain this because I didn’t have a specific idea of what uni would be like in the first place. In a way it just felt no different to me than college, work was presented on presentations and the lecturers would talk about it in more detail than was shown on screen. Assignments were just longer versions of essays I’d already written at college and field trips were managed by staff with clip boards and registers like I’d seen through my whole life. What I’m saying is university itself disappointed me; you’re not treated like an adult any more than a college student is. Obviously the living situation is completely different to what most teenagers have ever experienced, living with people your age, buying your own food and doing everything for yourself came as a bit of a shock to me as I’m sure it does to all first year students.

By Christmas time I realised that university wasn’t making me happy and I really didn’t enjoy my course at all, my attendance was incredibly low because my sleeping pattern was completely ruined and my depression kept me locked in my room and in my bed for hours each day. If you’ve had depression you might understand what I’m saying, everyone’s depression is different but it’s more incapacitating than I could ever explain. It appears as pure laziness but it feels like you’re not in control of your own actions, you wake up in the middle of the day and even if you’re in pain from hunger, desperately thirsty and keen to get up and make something of the day it’s the one thing you can’t seem to do. It’s not like I spent this time on my phone or watching TV, I simply lay there, alone with my own thoughts, listening in on the sounds of the city and envying the lives of those who occupy it with me. Depression is draining, you feel tired despite doing nothing and the thoughts that pass through your mind are truly horrible. I can’t remember a day when a thought hasn’t gone through my head telling myself that I’m useless, worthless, ugly, horrible, boring, and selfish or a day I’ve not felt numb, cold, frustrated, despaired, overwhelmed and empty.

I went through the early stages of dropping out of university and by February was almost a signature away from doing so, not that I’d told my parents anything. The day I went in to uni to make the final decision a rainbow shone over my university building and something felt different that day, a positivity I’d almost forgotten was possible and in that moment something made me stay, at least until the end of the year to give me a chance to discuss it with my parents and let myself get into a better state of mind to make a better decision. So I stayed, passed all my assignments and exams (just), spoke to my parents over Easter (who certainly weren’t pleased) and got ready and excited to be home for the summer. Again something had to go wrong.

I was unwell for a few days before I went home at the end of first year, it was getting progressively worse and by the time my parents came to collect me I wasn’t in a good state. The next day, back at home I went to the doctors who, after a few tests, told me I needed to go to hospital very soon as my right kidney simply wasn’t functioning properly. I spent a terrifying five nights in hospital during which many tests were carried out to specify the cause of my problem, they couldn’t find one from the basic tests and so I convinced myself my nightmare had come true, that I had kidney cancer and soon the ghostly image of myself would become a reality. However I improved, and when I was told I was fine and certainly well enough to go home I was delighted. The pain persisted over that summer so my cancer doubts took months to fade. But it was my time in hospital where I had a weird sort of epiphany that I should continue with university, things could be a lot worse clearly, besides I had no backup plan and no job I wanted to dive straight in to.

Coming out of hospital I had new lease of life, I found enjoyment in so many things that normally go unnoticed, the warmth of the sun, the simple beauty of green fields and blue sky and the sound of birds. I started running and cycling, worked every day I could and I met up with my friends and girlfriend at every opportunity I got. I prayed that things would stay so sweet and I did manage to sustain the optimism into the start of my second year. I arrived at our lovely new house and tried to continue being healthy and happy. I ate well, joined a gym, slept and woke up at regular times and attended almost every lecture and seminar, which was a huge improvement for me. Things were going well and carried on like this for a few months, and although the content of my course still wasn’t exactly lighting my fire I knew that I was getting enough enjoyment out of my life to carry on and get through it successfully. It was then that I was reminded that life could be cruel, not that it was clear how cruel it was being for quite a while, but it turned out that everything was about to change.

I was ten minutes into a lecture and a horrible sensation came over me, light headed, heart pounding, shaking and a feeling of incredibly intense sickness that started in the pit of my stomach and quickly grew, occupying my entire abdomen and then pushed up my throat as if I was going to throw up, I stood up, pushed past people to get to the isle and ran up the steps and out of the lecture doors straight to the toilet where, to my shock I wasn’t actually sick. Being sick has never bothered me at all, apologies for the details but I’ve made myself be sick before when it needed to be done. Confused, still feeling very sick, I stayed in the toilet until the lecture was over, and not wanting to make a scene walking back into the lecture, let alone possibly having to walk out again. Afterwards, my friend brought out my things for me, and I went home, deciding to miss the next lecture and get into bed as clearly I had some kind of bug. I can’t remember specifically what order it happened in, but this feeling of sickness or feelings similar began spreading to other aspects of my life, eating out, the gym, any shop I went to, the cinema, pubs. Everything. This happened over a period of a few months, firstly it occurred in all lectures and by January I practically gave up going, it wasn’t worth putting myself through, I wasn’t paying attention if I managed to stay in the lecture and every time it happened I just felt crap in every way for the rest of the day.

During this time I had another cancer scare, feeling generally unwell for weeks, I’d had a cough for months, I got easily out of breath, felt continually tired and a pain had developed in my shoulder. Rule number one of any illness should be to never search for your symptoms online but stupidly I did and everything I was experiencing seemed to correlate with lung cancer. I was a heavy smoker throughout my first year at uni but had quit shortly into second year so with this history I was only more convinced that once again I was on the path to the ghostly figure of myself I’ve long feared. I went to the doctors and he practically laughed at me when I asked if I may have lung cancer, a response that didn’t fully convince me but certainly made me realise I’m far too hasty to make assumptions. It was then he asked if I had any other issues with my health and I mentioned the sickness feeling I was experiencing in an ever increasing number of situations. It was then I was referred to a mental health professional, deep down I had already figured out this was what was going on with me. The wait to be seen was long as the waiting list to see any mental health worker in this country always seems to be. But to cut a long story short by the time my meeting with her came around I was already aware of what she was going to tell me, I have developed some quite severe form of anxiety and of course there is the depression alongside that. No offence to her but she wasn’t much help, she wasn’t trained for therapy and the waiting list for CBT on the NHS was at least 9 months. Apart from signing me up to an online course there wasn’t a lot that she could do for me, especially with second year only having a few months left.

I slipped back into my old ways, sleep didn’t come easily to me so my sleeping pattern was destroyed I didn’t eat particularly healthily and certainly not regularly. I don’t know if I’m alone in this way but I have an ability to completely hide what I’m going through from others, I could be lying in my room blankly staring at my TV with no hopes of achieving anything that day and then someone could walk into my room and I’d chat enthusiastically and laugh and smile, then they’d leave my room and my face would drop and I’d sink back down into my bed and hide from the world around me. The scary thing is I’m not sure if any of that laughter and smiling was ever real. Near the end of second year I was virtually incapable of eating out, could barely enter any kind of shop without walking out feeling sick, hadn’t been to a lecture or the gym in months or really done anything. There was a month without lectures (not that I was going) at the end of the year where things did improve a little, I forced myself to do a few things like join my friends at the pub and go into shops. I got my assignments done but unfortunately had an exam coming up, I hadn’t tried to get help from university for my problems which was stupid as I could’ve got deadline extensions and possibly a different style of exam. The night before my exam I felt as sick as I ever had and didn’t sleep for one second. Not a problem I’ve ever had before, people used to tell me I was way too relaxed about exams in previous years. I was seated at the very back of the exam hall which helped for some reason as I felt if I had to leave I could do so more inconspicuously. The exam was just an hour long and when writing I was slightly distracted from the feeling I was imminently about to throw up. When the exam was over I had a feeling of pride, I’d done it, if I could get through that surely I can conquer the feeling altogether in all aspects of my life.

A week later came the thing I’d been dreading the most, a week long field trip to the Czech Republic. Once again I didn’t sleep at all the night before but in the morning I felt a bit better, I was okay on the day of travelling which included long coach journeys, the airport and being on the plane itself, all things I had assumed would really be a problem for me, the night we arrived I even at some food in the hall with everyone else on my course. I couldn’t believe how well it was going, the next morning I ate breakfast in the hall again along with everyone else and almost felt excited for the next five days. Then we all had to sit and listen to a lecturer walk us through the details of the days excursions, five minutes in the feeling that I was going to be sick came out of nowhere and felt so incredibly real once again I couldn’t resist getting out of that room. Rather than walk you through all the details I can confirm that I didn’t stop feeling sick for a significant amount of time at all for the entire week. I assumed I must surely be genuinely ill; normally I could eventually get comfortable in situations to the point where I could just about manage. However, as soon as we got home and I had a meal in my own house I felt fine. That week in the Czech Republic my anxiety meant I missed out on all of the education each day and all of the fun in the evenings, I barely ate, barely slept and felt utterly miserable. I never knew that it was possible for anxiety to take hold of someone for an entire week, this sent me to the worst point my anxiety has ever been. I couldn’t do anything, I was going home for summer soon and hoped that wouldn’t be so bad as anxiety wasn’t something I associated with life at home but within days it was clear I was wrong. If I was in my girlfriend’s house and one of her parents came to stand in her bedroom door to have a chat I’d feel sick, feel trapped and helpless. We went into town to go shopping and I felt sick before we’d even left the house, I couldn’t go into the smallest shop without feeling sick. I couldn’t eat at my own dinner table if my parents had friends over.

This is what university has done to me, I’m not saying it’s fully universities fault as clearly this isn’t a problem faced by most students but certainly the whole university environment had something to do with it. In school and college I was never the most popular but I was always up for doing anything, especially if it was a laugh, I wasn’t afraid to make a fool of myself in front of people. I could make jokes in class and talk to anyone, go anywhere even if I knew nobody, now I can’t even go to a small and quiet pub with my friends.

As I said, I’m in my third year now, wishing I could go back in time and drop out half way through first year to potentially avoid any of this anxiety rubbish. I haven’t fully enjoyed anything I’ve done for almost an entire year now as I’ve either had a full on anxiety attack, mild panic feeling or I’ve at least had it nagging away in my mind, never letting me be free. It controlled me completely for a little while, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be fully free. I told my parents about my anxiety early during the summer, they were great and got me to go to a therapist and I made real improvement over the summer, I could go and eat in certain small places, go into shops and pubs and never feel fine but I could usually cope, as great as this is as I’ve missed it so much it’s so far from where I want to be. For the majority of the summer I was quite positive, getting to do things again was great and I got back into routines. I returned to uni in quite high spirits, after everything I’ve started to overcome maybe I can get through this year reasonably well. Lectures have been running almost 2 months and I’m afraid to say I haven’t attended a single one. I really did try, but I’ve never even got past the door. I’m just living with one other person, my best friend, who is very motivated for his course and spends much of his time on his work, I don’t blame him for this at all, it’s just a shame as it leaves me with many hours spent alone each day. I’m feeling very low, thankfully I’ve gained the strength not to hurt myself despite quite a strong longing to do so sometimes. But the scars on my wrist will be a constant reminder throughout my whole life that I didn’t always have this strength and that I do have the ability to hurt myself. The main reason I refuse to do it again isn’t for me, it’s for others, hardly anyone has spotted my scars as I’m incredibly careful but those who have are more hurt by them than I ever was, and hurting other people only makes me feel worse about myself.

Why do I feel so bad about myself I’ve been asked? I’m spending £9,000 a year on uni fees to stay in my room and do nothing, I’ve received lots of help now and haven’t really made much important progress, so I’ve let the people who have tried helping me down, including my parents who paid for my therapy at home. I feel like somehow I brought all of this upon myself, it took me a while to figure out how, but during my therapy over summer I was subjected to some hypnotherapy where my counsellor tried to make contact with my subconscious thoughts, ultimately she was trying to figure out what caused all of this, when speaking to me there was supposed to be a voice in my head telling me the answers to her questions. No matter what she asked me or said to me all that little voice in my head ever said was “because you deserve this”. Why I subconsciously think I deserve to suffer in this way I’m not entirely sure but I assume it’s punishment for my mums cancer which I hold responsibility for and seeing as I don’t have cancer myself, despite my regular scares, this is the format of punishment I’m getting.

One of the most annoying parts about my anxiety is that I know I’m not going to be sick, of the dozens of times I’ve had the feeling I’ve never been sick, so people have said to me well if you know you’re not going to be sick what’s the problem? Well the problem is they’ll never understand quite how horrible the feeling is and the body and the brains instincts when you feel like you’re imminently about to throw up is to get out of there. Besides it’s not just the sickness, it’s the racing heartbeat, the sweating, the shivering, the light headedness and the ringing in my ears that make it all the more difficult.

Undoubtedly though what scares me most is the thought that I may never get the old me back. I don’t believe I’ll ever completely budge my depression, but right now I would do anything just to be free from my anxiety. When it was just depression I could go out and get some relief from it, escape from it even if just briefly and came in waves meaning there were times I was free. My anxiety hasn’t loosened its hold for one second since it became severe.

#depression #anxiety #mental health #mental illness

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susansherlock · 4 years ago

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How detention causes long-term harm to children

Detaining children indefinitely, particularly in a place where their basic needs are not met, can cause long-term damage, according to decades of research on early child development.

Aug 22, 2019

Detaining children indefinitely, particularly in a place where their basic needs are not met, can cause long-term damage, according to decades of research on early child development.

The Trump administration plans to detain immigrant children who enter the U.S. illegally with their families with no deadline for release, ending a long-standing settlement that capped the detention of immigrant children at 20 days. The government says holding children in the facilities is for their own safety and well-being. But child advocates and pediatric health experts are outraged and say these children and their needs are being neglected and whole families left traumatized.

For young children who do not have a sense of time, staying in detention facilities feels like it will last forever.

One of those experts is Charles Nelson, a neuroscientist and psychologist at Harvard Medical School, who has studied the effects of child neglect around the world. Much of his research took place in Romania in the 2000s and has zeroed in on how institution-based care left long-lasting marks on children’s developing brains.

For young children who do not have a sense of time, staying in detention facilities feels like it will last forever. Time stands still as they wait, Nelson said, leading “to more despair and hopelessness.”

While the administration’s most recent move is focused on detaining family units, the Trump administration also separated thousands of children from their caregivers at the border. And evidence suggests it is still happening. When a child loses the protective buffer of a trusted adult, the trauma can rewire their brain’s architecture and leave that child with lasting emotional, mental and physical damage, according to experts.

The relationship between detention and increased mental health problems among children and families has been well-documented, according to Jaime Diaz-Granado, deputy chief executive for the American Psychological Association. His group has called the Trump administration’s rule change “a misguided attempt by this administration to stem the flow across the southern border.”

“The large majority of these children have already experienced trauma before arriving at immigration facilities, and the longer they are held in detention, the more likely their mental health will continue to suffer,” Diaz-Granado said.

Ample research has shown neglect harms children. In 2003, researchers published a series of foundational studies of the children raised in Romania’s orphanages that showed horrible consequences to those children and their society as a result of their institutionalization. Nelson was among the lead authors. When he hears reports of the U.S. separating immigrant children from their caregivers in federal custody, Nelson reflects on Romania where children were dropped off in institutions that had one untrained caregiver for more than a dozen children. “Yes, there are parallels,” he said.

Veronica Macovei Clark also hears echoes of her childhood in news reports about the condition of migrant children along the U.S. border. At age 26, she still wraps her arms around her knees and sways from side to side when she is stressed or has a bad dream — a coping mechanism she built while growing up in a Romanian orphanage.

Left to right: Veronica Macovei Clark (childhood photo on right) spent the first years of her life in an orphanage less than 100 miles from Bucharest, Romania. After she was adopted by a U.S. couple, she later returned to one of the facilities where she lived (seen on left). Photos courtesy Veronica Macovei Clark

“I would rock myself,” she said. “I don’t like a hug if I’m upset.”

Days after she was born, her parents left Clark at an orphanage for infants in Râmnicu Sărat, a town 93 miles northeast of Bucharest, Romania’s capital city, she said. She remained in state care until shortly before her fifth birthday when, in 1999, a couple from Kansas City, Kansas, adopted her. She could not walk properly and spoke only a single word (tata, or “father” in Romanian). She weighed 27 pounds, was Vitamin D-deficient and pale. Her skull was disproportionately small, she said, because she had been malnourished, eating primarily oatmeal porridge that tasted like coffee. She stuffed food in her cheeks to prevent anyone from taking it from her.

How the Romanian orphanages began

In 1966, Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu banned abortion and contraception in Romania to expand the country’s population, grow more workers and pay off the nation’s global debts. Ultimately under what was then known as Decree 770, women had to carry each pregnancy to term unless they already had given birth to five children, were age 45 or older, conceived through rape or incest, or if the pregnancy put the mother’s life at risk. Women underwent forced gynecological exams where they worked. A celibacy tax docked a woman’s wages if she did not bear children.

As a result of these policies, the nation’s fertility rate spiked in just one year, nearly doubling from 1.9 children per woman in 1966 to 3.7 in 1967, according to World Bank data. Families suffered under the financial strain. Unable to care for so many babies, parents surrendered thousands of infants and children, leaving 170,000 children in 700 overcrowded orphanages across Romania.

In 1989, Ceausescu’s government was overthrown, and on Christmas Day, a firing squad executed him and his wife, Elena.

What researchers found

In 2000, neuroscientist and psychologist Charles Nelson joined a team of researchers in Bucharest, more than a decade after the fall of Ceausescu. With thousands of children abandoned in orphanages, they wanted to understand how institutionalization left its mark on a young brain’s development. They conducted the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, the first-ever randomized study to compare the emotional and physical wellbeing and outcomes of children raised in orphanages to those raised in home settings, including foster care.

No institutional review board would approve a study on young children that risks traumatizing them, child development experts have said. But in Romania at this time, the children would have remained in orphanages either way. And the researchers had to construct a foster care system for their purposes because available services were woefully under-resourced and in no position to place so many children, Nelson said.

Researchers found 72 children who never left home, and 136 children aged between five and 31 months who had spent most of their lives in orphanages. Nelson and his team assigned every child a number and drew the numbers from a hat, randomly assigning each child to continue to receive care in orphanages or be moved to foster homes. Researchers ensured that children were of comparable age, gender, health and background with the only significant difference being how adults nurtured them.

In the institutions, strict schedules ruled a child’s day with virtually no time or effort devoted to forming meaningful relationships or sense of safety with a trusted adult. At one facility, 36 infants, toddlers and preschoolers awoke daily at 6:30 a.m. and were put to bed at 8 p.m. During mealtimes, children clustered around a caretaker who typically sat in silence and “fed them a bite at a time in turn,” the study authors wrote. Caretakers washed and changed the children’s clothes before or after they ate. Children played for a total of three-and-a-half hours, outdoors if the weather allowed, under the watchful gaze of caretakers who did not interact with them. Children stayed indoors if there weren’t enough staff members or if children were quarantined for illness. As many as 17 adults — housekeepers, teachers, medical staff — cycled rapidly through each child’s day.

In the study, researchers evaluated all children when they were nine, 18, 30 and 42 months old. Each time, they observed the children where they received care. They measured their height, weight and head circumference. They examined cognitive function, how well they could speak, interact with others, recognize people’s faces and emotions and focus their attention. They used puppets to interview the children to gauge their temperament. They took electrophysiological readings to see if differences in brain development emerged.

In 2005, the project published a study of electroencephalograms that showed brain images of children who received institutionalized care resembled those of children who had been traumatized or were diagnosed with learning disorders. Their nervous system typically developed more slowly than children who had never been institutionalized. Fewer neural connections took place in young children’s brains if they grew up neglected in institutions, evidence suggested. This lapse limited a child’s memory and ability to learn.

In their study, the researchers wanted to know how the absence of engaging adults influenced early child development so they could answer bigger questions.

“How much recovery is possible for children who experience early social deprivation?” they wrote in their 2003 study. “Are there critical periods that limit recovery from early deprivation?”

Over the years, answers started to come into focus. In a 2007 study, the group compared the three groups of children — those who remained in the orphanages, those randomly placed in foster care homes and those who were never removed from their families — and monitored them at 42 and 54 months of age. On average, institutionalized care blunted a child’s IQ over time. Similar evidence emerged among children in foster care, but the losses were less dramatic. And children who stayed with their caregivers saw their IQ improve over time.

“What happens early matters a lot,” Nelson, who is now at Harvard, said. And when trauma and neglect occur over prolonged periods of time, “development can be seriously derailed.”

After the studies were released, Romania made it illegal to place a child in institutional care until age 2. The population within the nation’s orphanages is a fraction of what it once was, and birth rates have slowed down.

Do child advocates and health experts see parallels between Romania and the U.S.?

Early child development experts and pediatric health advocates still point to Nelson’s studies of Bucharest orphanages when asked about the effects of institutionalized care and neglect on children.

After devoting his career to understanding how trauma can rewire a child’s brain architecture, Nelson said separating families at the border under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy is “the worst thing you could be doing.”

“One of the things that makes what’s going on at the border so horrific is the very thing that should provide comfort to a child — a caregiver — is taken away from them,” Nelson said.

Since summer 2017, at least 2,737 children have been separated from a parent at the U.S. border, according to data released in January from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General. But this number is incomplete, the federal government admits.

“Thousands of children may have been separated during an influx that began in 2017, before the accounting required by the court,” the inspector general’s report said.

By June 2018, nearly 20 percent of children who officials had accounted for were under age 13, Kaiser Health News reported, and more than 100 children were younger than four-years-old, according to Propublica. Since 2018, at least seven immigrant children are estimated to have died while in federal custody, according to NBC News.

Age matters when it comes to trauma, stress and early brain development, says Jack Shonkoff, who directs the Harvard Center for the Developing Child. Previous trauma, including gang wars, poverty and the violence many migrant children fled to come to the U.S., destabilizes a child’s resilience.

“When you keep kids separated from their parents this long and put them in an institutionalized setting, not a home setting, there’s no question that the harm they have will be directly a result of what we’re doing to them,” Shonkoff said. “The longer it goes on, the more damage is inflicted.”

In June, Willamette University lawyer Warren Binford described her visit to the Clint, Texas, facility to the PBS NewsHour’s William Brangham. She said she saw “the worst conditions I have ever witnessed in several years of doing these inspections.”

“What we saw are dirty children who are malnourished, who are being severely neglected,” she said. “They are being kept in inhumane conditions. They are essentially being warehoused, as many as 300 children in a cell, with almost no adult supervision.”

Shonkoff called that the “most profound form of neglect,” adding that “neglect is more damaging than actually physically beating a child.”

Pediatrician Julie Linton has treated hundreds of migrant children released from federal detention whose immune systems are unable to fight off infections due to severe stress of family separation. In the facilities, they were exposed to illnesses, such as pneumonia or diarrhea-related dehydration, that later required hospitalization, said Linton, speaking on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Linton also saw regressive behavior and cognitive delays emerge from detained children soiling themselves, detachment, temper tantrums in older children, rolling back speech milestones and difficulty completing tasks. No amount of time in detention is safe for immigrant children, she said.

Pia Rebello Britto, the chief of early childhood development for UNICEF, said children without a responsive caregiver rarely have anyone to comfort them. These children lose out on stimulating activities to promote how they think and learn, their health and happiness. Out of fear and anxiety, their stress hormone cortisol surges, obstructs new neural connections and breaks down old ones, “causing long-term psychological and physical damage.”

“It’s incredibly hard to bring a child back from that,” Britto said. “There are no second chances.”

Children separated from their families and detained by U.S. officials are returning to their loved ones traumatized. That is the argument the Southern Poverty Law Center made on behalf of three immigrant families against the U.S. government in court filings this month.

In one instance, a Guatemalan father and his 7-year-old son were separated in November 2017 after arriving in Arizona to seek asylum. The father refused to surrender his son, but agents took him away, his son’s cries becoming more distant until “he could not hear his son anymore,” according to the court documents.

The father was told if he signed deportation papers, he would be reunited with his son. The father was sent back to Guatemala in January 2018. His son was not given back to his family until July 26, 2018, the documents said.

His son returned a changed boy, the father said, according to the filings. At night, he woke up crying. At school, he struggled to focus and burst into tears whenever children asked him about his time in the United States. He angered easily and refused food.

What the future could hold for these children

Every day a young immigrant child spends in detention robs them of a day of healthy development, pediatric health advocates say. But now that the U.S. has these children in custody, what should be done?

“It’s incredibly hard to bring a child back from that,” Britto said. “There are no second chances.”

Linton wants to see lawmakers improve conditions in the detention facilities for immigrant children and families. Under the Humanitarian Standards for Individuals in Customs and Border Protection Custody Act, federal officials would meet basic needs for medical care, nutrition, water and sanitation. The legislation has been pushed as a partial response to government’s refusal to provide toothbrushes and soap to immigrant children in custody.

But Shonkoff pushed back on the idea of making the detention centers more livable for children and their families, saying the presence of the institutions is the issue.

“It normalizes these facilities,” he said. “That is not a radical position. That is bread-and-butter child health and the science of child development. Children are harmed by institutional settings.”

Everyone needs people to love and support them in life, Veronica Macovei Clark said. When she thinks about the migrant children detained on the U.S. border, she said those in charge of caring for the children should “at least play with these kids, talk to them. That’s better than nothing.”

“Kids shouldn’t grow up without a mom or a dad,” Clark said. “They shouldn’t be in a center with zillions of other people.”

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