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Ohio transgender teen's suicide prompts outcry
WTHR.COM ^ | : Dec 31, 2014 | WTHR

Posted on 01/01/2015 9:14:34 PM PST by Morgana

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To: Morgana

This is mental illness. The psychiatric establishment does not recognize it as mental illness, and encourages a mentally ill person to seek to have organs removed and/or grafted.


61 posted on 01/02/2015 5:15:52 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Morgana
You have a way with words...not!

Tell us, is ignorance bliss?

62 posted on 01/02/2015 6:08:50 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

You seem to have a penchant for name-calling of late. And your response does indicate that you do regard scientists and doctors as if they were of a quasi-priestly kind. All of said quasi-priestly order insist that the cause(s) of mental illness remain “unknown” and that there “may be” a “genetic predisposition”.

I cannot tell what manner of disorder you have, but no chemical imbalance is inborn; I have an aunt that was drugged into near-oblivion who was diagnosed with the syndrome with the ever-changing name (back then it was “manic depression”).

Nobody mentioned “original sin” save yourself. Perhaps you should have asked the person who said “evil will” what that person meant by that instead of presuming?


63 posted on 01/02/2015 6:22:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN; Olog-hai

“What? Mental illness is caused by an abnormal brain chemistry which is something a person is born with.”

SOMETIMES that is the case. Mental illness is also caused by trauma. That is what I suspect happened to this kid. I suspect he was molested at an early age. More than likely his parents did not know of it. Yes sexual abuse can lead to mental illness.


64 posted on 01/02/2015 6:28:20 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN; Olog-hai

I’m going to say this about your post...it’s a proven fact that this kid and other people like him need to be in a nervous hospital. Anyone who wants to cut off body parts that are not infected or diseased are off their rocker.


65 posted on 01/02/2015 6:34:37 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: ConservativeMind

It makes me wonder if the whole “devout Christian parents” and “only Christian therapists” claims are true or just part of the “larger narrative”.


66 posted on 01/02/2015 6:46:14 AM PST by Bob (Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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To: Bob

The latter is most likely.


67 posted on 01/02/2015 6:48:15 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

I’ve taken a deeper look at spiritual realities since, at one time, believing the picture was limited to the physical. (I still very much acknowledge that the picture contains the physical.)

Humanity defied God before its physical birth, while it was probably still just souls (except Adam and Eve, who were incarnate already). This sounds almost whoo-ooo New Ageish, but has the stark difference that God is unambiguously identified as king. And accepting this makes all the difference in eternity. This is something only the Great Physician can fix.


68 posted on 01/02/2015 6:52:51 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Olog-hai

God knows. It could be something fabricated after the fact, and unless the parents talk we would not know.


69 posted on 01/02/2015 6:54:10 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s remember that it’s possible, however (and sadly) to have “devout Christian parents” who are hypocrites. Legalistically very good, in spirit quite deficient if not altogether missing. Our hearts should melt in gratitude before God if our attitudes are right. Instead sometimes they rage in resentment.


70 posted on 01/02/2015 6:59:22 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

These threads where folks with obviously no direct experience with a loved one’s mental illness and make grand pronouncements about evil and demonic possession make my blood boil.

At the same time, I hope they can forever live in their abject ignorance.

I would wish the experience my sister and I had over the last 20 years of mom’s life on absolutely no one.


71 posted on 01/02/2015 7:20:13 AM PST by dmz
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To: Morgana

People like that also think they would like to be a bird a pony...................


72 posted on 01/02/2015 8:19:53 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: NetAddicted

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/101126


73 posted on 01/02/2015 8:37:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Black lies matter. 'White privilege' is dog-whistle for 'kill white people.')
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To: Persevero

really, so I can commit suicide or murder you same same.

Unusual.


74 posted on 01/02/2015 9:30:10 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: morphing libertarian

It’s the same sin; whether murder of self or murder of someone else. It’s all murder.


75 posted on 01/02/2015 9:35:27 AM PST by Persevero (Telling the truth is now "Hate Speech")
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To: Bobalu

Ridiculous. Simply ridiculous. Once on a plane I happen to catch an MTV episode that showed a teenage girl who had made the transition to be a boy and had been taking hormone treatments etc. with her mother’s approval. She-he decided she-he didn’t want to be a boy anymore so she stopped the hormone treatments but still had a beard. She-he underwent electrolysis which was expensive. Her-his mother said that she would no longer support any transitioning back-and-forth. The girl-boy-girl was very upset that her mother was not going to be supportive of her continued exploration of different genders.


76 posted on 01/02/2015 9:42:59 AM PST by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: Persevero

killing yourself is not murder. That’s why there is a separate word for it. I’m not discussing what you think is a sin. I am discussing legality and right to control your own life without busy bodies making the decision for you.


77 posted on 01/02/2015 9:50:40 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Oh, ok, I thought you were wondering about the moral gravity of it.

It may not be against the civil law to kill yourself. I don’t really see how it could be, since if you do it, you’re dead, obviously.


78 posted on 01/02/2015 10:01:55 AM PST by Persevero (Telling the truth is now "Hate Speech")
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To: Persevero

sometimes it’s helpful to distinguish sin from law. Not all sins are illegal.

In the case of suicide what is the legal penalty. How many trials have their been?


79 posted on 01/02/2015 10:09:04 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Defund , sue, impeach. Overturn Obamacare, amnesty.)
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To: morphing libertarian

“In the case of suicide what is the legal penalty. How many trials have their been?”

Well, obviously, if they are dead, none.

But attempted suicide? I wonder. I don’t know.


80 posted on 01/02/2015 10:36:51 AM PST by Persevero (Telling the truth is now "Hate Speech")
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