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Navigating and Celebrating Your Otherness to Succeed as a Queer Person in STEM
Published in Kelly J. Cross, Stephanie Farrell, Bryce E. Hughes, Queering STEM Culture in US Higher Education, 2022
Even with the resistant capital I had amassed, the constant inner turmoil of being different in so many ways wore on me. I continued to push myself to excel in the areas that were prized at school. I felt that I had to be perfect and, if I fell short, I never forgave myself. I almost always behaved as expected, but on occasion I had emotional outbursts. I remember these incidents with clarity: Once I threw a closed half-pint of milk at my best friend, and another time I had an uncontrollable crying fit in the bathroom because my mom was heading on yet another work-related trip. In 6th grade, I became practically apoplectic while crying over the fact that my best friend and I had accidentally broken a window in her neighbor's house while we were housesitting. The only thing that calmed me was her mom telling me that my name was “Robyn” not “G-O-D,” that it was okay to have made a mistake, and that windows could be fixed. That was also the year that I had my first bout of acid reflux. Looking back now, I recognize that some of these symptoms are normal signs of puberty, but they can also be signs of depression (“Teen depression - Symptoms and causes,” 2021). Based on my medical metrics, I was certainly not going through puberty yet. Rather, I was likely among the majority of gender nonconforming youth who dealt with a depressive disorder (Becerra-Culqui et al., 2018) although I was not officially diagnosed for another twenty years.
Designing for Lower Torso and Leg Anatomy
Published in Karen L. LaBat, Karen S. Ryan, Human Body, 2019
The reproductive systems become functional at puberty, sometime in adolescence. Physical changes related to puberty affect lower torso wearable product designs. Both genders develop pubic hair. Changes in oil production and increased perspiration can affect product materials choices. Products designed specifically for the male reproductive system may be prophylactic, meant to prevent pregnancy in a female partner or to prevent disease in the wearer or a partner. Everyday products for the male lower torso, especially underwear, may produce negative effects on fertility. Products designed specifically for females can also be prophylactic, to prevent pregnancy or disease. Other products related specifically to female anatomy and function include products designed to manage menstrual flow, maternity clothing to accommodate the pregnant figure, products to compensate for pregnancy-related skeletal changes, and internal supports for pelvic organ prolapse.
Motorcycle risky behaviours and road accidents among adolescents in Jakarta metropolitan area, Indonesia
Published in International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2021
Yuyun Umniyatun, Mochamad Iqbal Nurmansyah, Yoli Farradika, Tri Bayu Purnama, Didin Nuruddin Hidayat
Mistakes in driving are influenced by police supervision on highways and adolescents’ ignorance of safety regulations driving down the road (Alonso et al., 2017). Early adults apply driving safety if they feel supervised by the police or have gained socialization in driving at school. Psychological-social factors still dominate compliance and awareness in the safety of driving on roadways among early adults instead of adherence to applicable laws. There are many factors affecting adolescents in committing unlawful acts on the highway. In terms of psychological development, changes in the endocrine system during the puberty period could influence drives, motivation, mood and emotions that could have significantly impacted sensation-seeking and risk-taking behaviours (National Research Council (US), Institute of Medicine (US), 2007). Previous studies showed that higher rates of motorcycle accidents were associated with their difficulties in managing their emotional responses (Cerniglia et al., 2015; Cimino et al., 2018). Higher family support was expected to contribute to a more adaptive emotional-behavioural functioning of adolescents. This, in turn, decreases the likability of risky driving behaviour that might lower the rate of motorcycle accidents (Cerniglia et al., 2015).
Cardiorespiratory fitness, sleep, and physiological responses to stress in women
Published in European Journal of Sport Science, 2020
Shannon K. Crowley, Julia Rebellon, Christina Huber, Abigail J. Leonard, Daniel Henderson, Meir Magal
Approximately 20% of U.S. adults experience mental illness in a given year (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2017), and stress-related psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety, are twice as common in adult women as in adult men (Hyde, Mezulis, & Abramson, 2008). Importantly, it has been observed that this sex bias in depression and anxiety prevalence is not evident in childhood, but appears to emerge during puberty (Hyde et al., 2008), implicating a strong role for female reproductive sex hormones in the development of depression and anxiety disorders. Indeed, there exists a large literature which suggests that changes in ovarian hormone levels have a profound effect on susceptibility to the development of stress-related psychiatric disorders in women [see recent review by Rubinow and Schmidt (2018)]. Moreover, it is well established that chronic stress plays a primary etiological and pathological role in many psychiatric disorders, and evidence suggests that the physiological response to psychosocial stress may be dysregulated in women with stress-related psychiatric diseases such as depression and anxiety (Crowley & Girdler, 2014). For example, biological findings in women with depression have shown exaggerated sympathetic nervous system (commonly measured via hemodynamic stress responses) activity and dysregulation in hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis function, (most commonly assessed via peripherally measured cortisol; Crowley & Girdler, 2014). In the context of prevention, therefore, interventions which positively impact how women physiologically adapt to stress have a high potential to reduce the incidence and burden of stress-related psychiatric disorders.
Puberty Blockers for Children: Can They Consent?
Published in The New Bioethics, 2022
PBs (Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists or GnRHa) are a form of medication that blocks the physiological production of sex hormones. The sex hormones, testosterone (in males) and oestrogen (in females), are responsible for the changes that occur in puberty. PBs stop the production of the hormones FSH and LH from the pituitary gland, which stimulate the ovaries, and this in turn prevents the production of sex hormones.