Trans People Are Mentally Ill (It’s The Comorbidities, Silly!)
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Comorbidity sounds really heavy, but it’s just a psychology term referring to someone dealing with more than one mental issue at the same time.
Psychologists have noticed some enduring patterns. It’s very common for someone to deal with, say, depression and anxiety together. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 7% of the US will suffer through a major depressive episode at some point.
There’s reason to believe it’s much higher than this. Besides life being hella depressing sometimes, the stigma surrounding mental and emotional struggles keeps many people from talking to anyone about them.
And it’s usually difficult to tease out what causes what. Depression and anxiety go together particularly well, functioning almost as a negative continuum between action and inaction.
I bring all this up to point out that mental illness also has some predictable effects on someone’s life.
Depression and anxiety both shorten your life because they change how you choose to live it. Depressed people are more likely to smoke and drink, so they have higher rates of stuff like alcoholism and cancer, too.
Whenever I hear about how trans people have a ‘very high incidence’ of things like suicide, poor health outcomes and violence (for varying definitions of ‘violence,’ I assume…) I find myself yelling at my screen, “Yes, that’s because they’re mentally ill!”
Everything seems to be en pointe lately, I can’t seem to get away from it. This week at church, Father Mike’s thesis was, “Crazy people are just like the rest of us, only moreso.” This got a good chuckle from the assembled group, but I found it to be a dangerous oversimplification.
He prefaced his speech – Sorry, sermon – by saying he first encountered ‘real crazy’ his first year in seminary. Which I guess is why he finds such glibness amusing.
Some of us had adventures in the Land of Make-Believe a lot earlier. Some of us went against our will, not out of the kindness of our heart. Some of us have been there, done that, got the t-shirt, and burnt it.
Some of us recognize this stuff when we see it as well as we recognize our own family.
There’s no place like home!
A video celebrating what’s become of Ellen Page made the rounds last week, and I couldn’t get through it. Hearing her talk about finally being comfortable in her body – only after having prominent parts of it removed – broke my heart.
Only finding happiness under the scalpel is mental illness, end of. That is not up for discussion. Anyone saying anything else is selling something. Find me proof the euphoria doesn’t wear off, that it’s not an addictive rabbit hole.
We all understand that people like Catman and the Human Barbie are both a little sideways, but they’re not hurting anyone. They’re not insisting laws recognize their right to live in a zoo, or to lay naked on the floor of little girls’ bedroom closets.
That’s the problem here. The Human Barbie is not going to sue you if she overhears you tell someone she isn’t the real Barbie.
Because she makes no claim to that. Even the Human Barbie knows that would be absurd.
Trans people suffer high rates of all kinds of bad outcomes because they are mentally ill. They lack the wherewithal to properly care for themselves. And they often do encounter prejudice in their daily lives, stemming from the stigma surrounding mental illness.
It’s all fairly run-of-the-mill stuff. Their need to be seen as a new, unique brand of creature just looks pretty damn narcissistic. Narcissism has a very high comorbidity with depression, because life never seems to quite live up to their bloated expectations.
I am sick of being told how vital it is that trans people get ‘affirming’ care. Because no, it isn’t. I’m sick of hearing how dysphoria that persists beyond puberty is a sign of real transness. (Gatekeep much??) This is exactly the opposite of my experience.
Dysphoria beyond puberty is a symptom of unhealed trauma, full stop. Healing is scary because we have to go to the dark places, but the only way out is through. How arrogant to suggest anyone is exempt from learning hard lessons in life!
Seriously y’all, I just can’t even anymore!
It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Marion Millar has been charged with two counts of ‘Malicious Communication’ for tweeting about women’s rights, which is so Orwellian they ought to make him an honorary Scottish citizen. Hubs has been cranky and the kids are all home from school, again.
But I couldn’t let this go any longer. All the droplets condensed into a downpour in my mind and it overflowed onto my keyboard.
Trans people are mentally ill. Indulging them in their parallel ideations serves no one but those looking to profit off of them.
I’ve learned not to be upset when someone accuses me of hating trans people, but sometimes it bites back at me in the form of a stubborn lump in my throat because nothing could be further from the truth. Sometimes loving someone means telling them a hard truth or two.
I can’t affirm someone’s destructive delusion, no matter how many authorities they may invoke. I won’t be beating about the bush on this point anymore, I have seen too many mastectomy scars. For all of the women who I love, I have to rise to the occasion.
IT IS MY BUSINESS BECAUSE WE ALL PAY FOR THIS WASTED USE OF UNNEEDED AND DAMAGING SURGICAL MEDICAL INTERVENTION. Because whether you are educated enough to know this or not, we all live under a SOCIAL CONTRACT, which gives us rights and the NOW never talked about any more RESPONSIBILITIES, getting surgey under the age of 30 to MAGICALLY solve the problem we all share, i.e. NO ONE IS HAPPY IN THEIR BODY, costs us way more than learning to love the life you get, we are ignoring how industry is disrupting normal biological outcomes across the globe not only for humans but the rest of the animals, medicalizing poltical bulllshit, ignoring evidence, no one ever should get UNNEEDED surgury, if you do you will spend the rest of your life with a doctor as POPPA, and you still won't have a clue what you are, you'll just be worse off than if you found another way that didn't require changing SURFACES over SUBSTANCE, humanity has lost its mind, never really had an ounce of sense in my opinions, turd species.
I fully agree. And the thing that's even more annoying is the "They aren't harming anyone, just let them live their lives" argument, is that they are just supporting literal delusions. Being gay isn't an issue because they aren't claiming to be something they aren't. I simply don't understand how people can't grasp the basic logical concept that you can't just simply force society to accept whatever YOU feel you might be. There is no difference between that and me telling people to refer to me as a cat because I feel like one. Literally every trans person and "professional" I've heard talk all say something along the lines that it's "internal" or a "cognitive" thing...so uh..yeah, it's a mental disorder! It's not healthy to teach kids that guns are actually toys, so why are we teaching them that men can be women and women can be men? It's not healthy. We don't go around praising anorexic people to throw up more, we try to get them help.. I'm baffled at how everyone just seems to be accepting this lunacy without even thinking about the simple natural logic we've lived by since the dawn of mankind
Thank you for your courage in starting a dialogue on this topic. Its confusing, modern, and just really wierd to try and learn about the continuing evolution of gender in western society. The folks who insist on special treatment, seem reluctant to explain what has changed in recent times, or to speak to the issue of dysphoria at all. I appreciate your talking about it.
what the fuck
If you're all about stating biological reality, how does abortion factor into it then? Stating facts about the abortion industry slaughtering developing humans is typically labelled bigotry, no matter how true it is. As well as the fact it's considered fine to slaughter a baby with a disability, when it's not okay to abort the baby based on sex. Evidently, killing a disabled baby is fine, even though that is beyond it's control more than it's sex is.
This is a very instructive text, I have the same view as you on 'transexuality', just didn't know how to put it into words, thank you for doing that. Now when someone come and ask me about it, I will show them this. And it has nothing to do with being homophobic, I'm a lesbian myself and would never do such mutilation to my body. I understand some people has that need to be more 'masculine' or 'feminine', but can't they do that without cutting off body parts or trying to be the other gender? I apologize, my English is bad, I'm not a native speaker, thks anyway.
IT IS MY BUSINESS BECAUSE WE ALL PAY FOR THIS WASTED USE OF UNNEEDED AND DAMAGING SURGICAL MEDICAL INTERVENTION. Because whether you are educated enough to know this or not, we all live under a SOCIAL CONTRACT, which gives us rights and the NOW never talked about any more RESPONSIBILITIES, getting surgey under the age of 30 to MAGICALLY solve the problem we all share, i.e. NO ONE IS HAPPY IN THEIR BODY, costs us way more than learning to love the life you get, we are ignoring how industry is disrupting normal biological outcomes across the globe not only for humans but the rest of the animals, medicalizing poltical bulllshit, ignoring evidence, no one ever should get UNNEEDED surgury, if you do you will spend the rest of your life with a doctor as POPPA, and you still won't have a clue what you are, you'll just be worse off than if you found another way that didn't require changing SURFACES over SUBSTANCE, humanity has lost its mind, never really had an ounce of sense in my opinions, turd species.
It's not their business. What IS everyone's business is the right to call a man a man, a woman a woman, and to NOT BE FORCED to call a guy in a dress "ma'am."DNA can not and will not LIE. You are either XX or XY- that is FACT and SCIENCE.A man who "thinks" he is a woman is just as mentally ill as a man who thinks he's a dog, cat, lawn chair, or anything other than a man.
Why is it your business if someone else gets cosmetic surgery?
At first i thought this will be one of those CLICKBAIT blogs that use the truth just to push there pov on other people. I am glad this is not one of those blogs. I agree with you 100%, transgender / transpeople imo is playing pretend while at the same time having a mental illness. Just because you went to a doctor to change your P to a V does not make you a woman.
Thanks for reading! They are trying to convince themselves, and need everyone else to play along. It would be sad if it weren't so malignant.
AGP + NPD = TRA
I was being a bit facetious with that equation...(I tried to leave a reply before but i don't think it went thru.) It may be true that most pro-gender activists aren't trans, their behaviour is guided by conventional explanations - the group dynamics you point out. The trans TRA's have adifferent source to their extremism, and it is narcissistic rage. I've just read an excerpt from the Joyce book on Quilette, it points in the right direction.
That was more humourous quip than objective assessment...What distinguishes the trans-TRA vs ally-TRA is the narcissistic rage and where it comes from. The origins of the vociferousness of those two groups differ. The latter's behaviour can be explained using social dynamics - as you acknowledge - like cognitive dissonance, mobbing, vindictive protectiveness (new concept useful to aquaint onself with). For the former, no better explanation: http://www.annelawrence.com/shame_&_narcissistic_rage.pdf - from the horse's mouth as it were.
I mean... Yes?I have always understood AGP to be a manifestation of NPD, and many if not most TRAs are not trans. It seems to be functioning like a religious revival movement, complete with heretics, excommunication, purity rituals, even saints.
"Nothing could be further from the truth" LOL, big "Love the sinner hate the sin" vibes. No one believes you spend all day obsessing over our chests because you "love" us. This is just recycled homophobia. Do you really believe conservative Christians "love" gay people, just because they say they do? That's the same kind of "love" you have for trans people. Just admit you hate us! You'll feel better.
Hate no. Pity you. Yes.
It’s funny to see the offended faux trans person come here and say this is recycled homophobia. Everyone with an ounce of clarity can see that TRAs are erasing homosexuality and re-branding everyone and everything “queer.” Please.No gay dude wants a trans vagina pretending to be male in his face and no true lesbian wants a penis anywhere near her, end of story.And yes, these people are very much mentally ill. I made a comment on a local new story about a Montessori school teacher having her students make blackface masks out of black paint and paper plates, and said “these are the same progressive whackos who are grooming kids by telling them they are born in the wrong bodies and that it’s good to hang out with strangers who are interested in your sexuality as a child, and you should always keep secrets from parents.”I woke up to a TRA who stalked me, found my business website, got my bnumber, and called anonymously all morning leaving threatening messages. Because they are so grounded, sane and blah blah blah.They are mentally ill and often dangerous to the community.
What exactly is wrong with caring about someone regardless of their behavior? I’m not Christian, and I take no responsibility for how they treat homosexuals, but thanks for admitting same-sex attraction exists. I’ll be sure to let all the radfems know.Seriously tho, it doesn’t matter what you say,I’m not going back on this. That was the whole point here.