Cosmetic clinics will begin assessing patients’ suitability for Botox in an attempt to spot those whose desire to alter their appearance is due to mental health problems.
Well, yeah. There's
a lot of it about.
...the NHS’s top doctor claimed that the cosmetic industry was doing too little to stop those with body image obsessions undergoing potentially harmful treatments.
The NHS is
struggling with this too.
“Cosmetic firms bringing in tighter controls to protect young people’s mental health is a major step forward,” said Prof Stephen Powis, NHS England’s medical director.
However, he added, the new measures do not go far enough.
They never do, for people like this, do they?
“Voluntary steps on their own mean mental health too often will still be left in the hands of providers operating as a law unto themselves.
“Appearance is one of the things that matters most to young people, and the bombardment of idealised images and availability of quick-fix procedures is helping fuel a mental health and anxiety epidemic.”
Yes, it's
quite an epidemic, isn't it?
and yet we are making it easier for people to have sex change ops while they are barley old enough to know what bits go where.
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