Some children are not truly cured by you, but are trained to no longer resist. When a society frequently uses “treatment, correction, intervention” to address children's suffering, it is actually rewriting structural problems into individual diseases. The so-called treatment for internet addiction, emotional disorders, attention issues, behavioral correction may seem fragmented, but they share the same logic: when children cannot adapt to the social order, the problem is blamed on the child.



As a result, children are isolated and forcibly compliant due to internet addiction; diagnosed, medicated, and monitored for emotional lows; managed with long-term medication for hyperactivity; labeled, diverted, and isolated for being “incompatible with the group.” The danger of these practices is not only in their rough methods but also in a crucial shift—they transform situational issues into pathological problems. Children's suffering stems from pressure, shame, competition, broken relationships, and oppressive evaluation systems, but once labeled as “disease” or “disorder,” their background is completely erased, leaving only symptoms to be eliminated.

Treatment is no longer centered on understanding but on control; no longer asking “why can’t they endure,” but only “how to restore normalcy as quickly as possible.” Resistance is defined as a condition, refusal as non-cooperation, and pain as an indicator. When children lose the right to interpret their own suffering, they also lose their subjectivity.

A deeper issue is that this is not merely a medical phenomenon but a form of social division of labor. Schools need order, families need stability, systems need smooth operation. When a child becomes an “inappropriate person,” turning them into a patient is the lowest-cost, clearest-responsibility solution. Parents’ cooperation often stems from fear, and the proliferation of institutions is because they offer quantifiable, manageable, and marketable answers.

The real problem is not in medicine itself but in its use as a tool for control; not in treatment, but in using the guise of treatment to suppress expression and eliminate differences. Many children labeled as “needing treatment” are not actually ill but are placed into a structure that cannot accommodate them. When society constantly demands children change but refuses to change itself, the problem has never been with the children.
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