Applied behavior analysis has long been considered the gold standard. Now, people who have been through it are pushing back.
"Based on data gleaned from the nearly 10 million military dependents it…
“These people are so used to pain that they can adapt to almost any kind of aversive you give them.”
When I was a kid, my dad put me on a nail bitterant because I was a rampant nail biter. It worked... for a few days. Then the taste of the bitterant became more tolerable than the sensory issues of long nails and I was right back where I started
When I was a kid, my dad put me on a nail bitterant because I was a rampant nail biter. It worked... for a few days. Then the taste of the bitterant became more tolerable than the sensory issues of long nails and I was right back where I started![blob-no-thoughts blob-no-thoughts](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/1ef20b55-8fcc-4ed6-8fa2-57d4faa6b6a6.png)
Nice to know I wasn't the only one!