Cosmetic Surgery

Botox is Luring Our Young People into Debt and Addiction!!

There are so many stories told by people about their obsession to find a way to look younger than they are.

Catherine Cassilian is just one of those people. She says, “After 2 ½ years of Botox injections between my eyebrows, into my forehead and underneath my eyes, I enjoy the positive comments I get from people on how I look. I have tried, and bought lots of expensive creams, and lotions over the years, says Catherine, Estee Lauder, Clinique, L’ Oreal and nothing helped those fine lines and wrinkles that start to appear as we all get older”.

Catherine was 28 when she had her first Botulinum Toxin treatment, (which causes muscle paralysis) so she wouldn’t get frown lines. She is now 31, and over time she has increased the treatment, and now she says, “Even more areas on my face are needing treatment, but this is what happens as we get older, only the cost goes up to by a lot, and this is becoming a real concern”.

Botox does not stop your face from ageing, but what it can do is get you hooked on something that is not a one off treatment, it is going to cost you more and more,, and with every treatment you are risking your health, not to mention your self esteem.

When you use Botox for the first time, there is a feeling of elation. You gladly hand over your money, and walk out of the treatment centre with a skip in your step. You can’t wait for your friends, or the women at work to notice that the nasty wrinkle on your forehead has gone. Magic!!

Everyone is thrilled for you, and maybe they are a little envious to. You look in the mirror every day to check it hasn’t sneaked back, and although it might have been the most money you have ever spent on yourself, you’re worth it.

Then the dreaded day arrives. IT’S BACK. Not only is it back, it has brought along a friend. That sickly feeling in the pit of stomach kicks in.

You make another appointment at the treatment centre. The needle hovers over your face, and then in a flash it’s over – two injections this time, nearly twice the money. But, are you worth it. Of course you are.

The rot has set in. You are hooked. The feeling is still the best, but you are dreading the hangover. Can you keep affording this temporary treatment? What happens when more and more lines and wrinkles appear? Can you afford to carry on? But you can’t go back to how you where. What will friends say? You have spent all that money, and your face will always go back to looking the same as you when you first started on the Botox roller-coaster.

Not a happy place to be!!!

Of course Catherine is not alone. The fountain of youth has been sought by every generation, but thinking you need to start using Botox at 28 years old is just silly.
The majority of us are living longer, and at 31, Catherine, and those like her are going to be using Botox for a very long time.

“I think there is a trend”, said Melanie Cishecki, executive director of Toronto Media Watch, a non-profit making group that monitors sexist images in the media. “We are seeing more and more young women being targeted for these procedures”.
“I see more and more women buying into all this advertising about their role – a decorative role – with an impossible body image, in a youth culture.

Berkeley Kaite, an associate professor of cultural studies at McGill University, correlates the desire to look youthful to a consumer-based society.

“In societies of mass production, and mass consumption, we always want something new, the newest, the best, the latest,” said Berkeley. “It wasn’t always that way, and not all cultures do. There are some cultures that listen to their elders.”
“We think of older people as disposable,” Berkeley said. “You dispose of the old, and replace it with the new. I can’t see that it’s not connected to our consumer culture.”

Dr. Alastair Carruthers is a dermatologist who has a practice in Vancouver, along with his wife who is a physician, says, “since the discovery of Botox, which it must be remembered is only a temporary solution to preventing wrinkles, we have seen a big change in the anti-ageing industry.

Dr. Carruthers went on to say “Twenty years ago, if you ever toyed with the idea of having a cosmetic procedure done, you waited until you were at least 50, and then you had a facelift, and if you were lucky enough to live long enough, you had it repeated,”
“For some time now” he continued, “the ageing issue has become a real concern for those men and women in their thirties, now we are seeing people who are much younger than that, and that is a concern”.

Dr.Carruthers has seen a dramatic increase in the number of men and women wanting Botox.
Botox injections increased by 2,356% in the United States from 1997 – 2001, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery website.

Catherine Cassilian mentioned earlier, is a nurse at Dr. Carruthers Dermatology Centre. She decided to start having Botox when she saw that is wasn’t only ageing starlets who were having the procedure done, but much younger women were wanting the treatment, because they  believed that Botox would  prevent wrinkles from occurring. I started because lines were beginning to appear, these younger women truly believed that Botox would stop them from appearing, and that is wrong,

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In 2008 in the US, 4.6 million people had a Botox procedure.

With virtually no recovery time needed, and costing a fraction of a forehead lift, Botox injections are gaining popularity around the world. Global sales of Botox now run into $billions.

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in its’ journal warned that “in this atmosphere of Botox parties (where champagne sipping socialites are injected with Botulinum Toxin), it is easy to forget that Botulinum is a potent neurotoxin, and that its very long-term effects are still unknown.”

For many people starting on the road of Botox, and other expensive surgical procedures it can become an addiction, and finding the money to feed it, can drive them into stealing from friends, and family, or taking it further which can lead to prosecution.

Botox is no different to alcohol, cigarettes or painkillers, plus a host of other serious drugs, for turning you, and thousands like you into addicts. The situation is getting so bad, that doctors and counselors are being trained to help those who have become addicted to one of the most dangerous toxins in the world, BOTOX.

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About the Author

I am English but have lived in the Far North, of the North Island of New Zealand for the past seven years in a small town called Keri Keri.

I live with my huband Peter, and we have three children, and four grand-children, two of which still live in the U.K.

New Zealand is a stunning place to live, and has a population of just over four million people living in a land area the size of the UK, which has a population sixty five million people. So there is plenty of room for everyone.

I began writing articles after I began my Nu Skin business. I was so interested in the science behind their revolutionary ‘ageLOC’ discovery, that I started to look much more closely at the whole anti-ageing market, especially Botox.

It was the popularity of Botox around the world that stunned me, and the vast amount of money that this method of temporarily reducing lines and wrinkles on people’s faces generates. But the most worrying aspects I came across are why younger and younger people are using it, and why these young people are so dissatisfied with their whole body image.

I am also concerned about the safety of using Botox. I have received, and am still receiving emails from people who have experienced some frightening side effects after a treatment.

There are more concerns about the use of Botox that I will explore in further articles, so stay tuned in.

For more information….. http://www.agelessathome.co.nz

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