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The emotionally detached loveless mother!

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Imagine a mother who is physically present but mentally and emotionally absent. This could be due to two factors: 1. Normal mother who hates family or children - this could be a cultural problem, or upbringing problem or an individual level problem  2. Abnormal mother who is emotionally detached and loveless  In both cases, imagine the plight of the family. The husband expects certain help, support and understanding from his wife for family and children. But it is absent. There is sex but no love. The mother is unable to pick up social cues and is selfish. She starts masking techniques and starts blaming husband or family for anything that goes wrong around. She does not understand the protectiveness of her husband and never engages in a proper conversation on it.  She does cooking for family but is not emotionally attached to them. Her children are confused and do not learn anything about social behaviour from her. She uses deception to remain in power but has poor decep...

Medical studies and clinical trials have a male bias! Women health is ignored and leads to misdiagnosis!

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  Clinical trials and studies are first carried out on adult males. Adult females, children, elderly population, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers are less often used in studies. The pharmaceutical companies are worried about including them in clinical trials initially or even later on for fear that if some unforeseen ill-effects happen, people would more likely criticize and sue them for them. Hence they either do not study these groups or study them after all the adult male trials have been successful and safe. This means that many times female diseases remain unstudied and due to this they remain misdiagnosed or missed or remain a total mystery. The ancient thinking on women Women have since time immemorial being considered as an inferior version of men. This thinking has been there despite the fact that developing the human body is a female type first before the male hormones act on them to make it a male. The Greek philosopher Aristotle had described female as a mut...