Posted on 06/02/2016 10:07:27 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Actually, mental disorders are completely natural. Unless you subscribe to the pseudo-religious belief that "natural" is a synonym for "good and pure", you know that "natural" illnesses absolutely should be treated.
Cancer, schizophrenia, and Ebola are all natural, but I've never heard anyone claim that we should celebrate them instead of looking for cures.
Dr. I. “Will” Kutcherpeckeroff would disagree.
I’m no Psychiatrist but I’ve been saying that for years. It’s a severe mental illness and you can include the rest of the alphabet LGB letters.
... and oh, by the way. The factual medical definition of homosexuality is DEVIANT BEHAVIOR.
Johns Hopkins has been on the forefront of fighting this madness for at least 30 years. Just because you’re just discovering it doesn’t mean they weren’t fighting it.
Well....duh.!
The existence of something in our natural world, does not alone qualify anything as natural. That applies especially to mental disorders.
This is a good book on it, I’ve turned to Chapter 2,page 45 on natural kinds...some can be said to be of natural kind, some not: https://books.google.com/books?id=FNFQTA3AjK8C&pg=PA45&dq=Is+Disease+a+Natural+Kind%3F&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
You’re right, nobody wants to celebrate the Cancers, etc, but they do want to celebrate homosexuality, etc, which are essentially avenues to spread deadly diseases.
64% of HIV/AIDS in the USA is among <3% of population, men who have sex with men...a completely unnatral relationship. These numbers are rising among this group.
70% of all STDs in the USA are among homosexuals in general, though that’s mostly among men who have sex with men. These numbers are rising among this group.
The CDC did a study of Male-to-Female Transgender (Transgender women, they like to call them) sex worker in 1987 - 68% were HIV/AIDS positive and 50% didn’t know.
More recently it has been proven that Male-to-Female Transgender as a group are 50 times more likely to be HIV/AIDS positive:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2812%2970326-2/fulltext?_eventId=login
SHOOSH..!!
Either something is natural—that is, it exists within the laws of the natural world—or it is supernatural.
I do not know of anything that is supernatural.
Natural things can absolutely be pathological, and even lethal. Earthquakes are natural. So is mental illness, which is highly pathological.
Assigning the word “natural” to a pathology to make it not only acceptable, but something to celebrate, is the issue here. For some reason, leftists love mental illness, especially when the illness centers on sexuality.
You can’t change your gender: Have you ever heard of Body Integrity Identity Disorder? Long story short, there are people out there who believe they’re “supposed to” have less limbs. Maybe they want to get rid of an arm or a leg. The “problem” these people run into is that surgeons consider it unethical to remove a healthy, functioning body part and refuse to saw off their limbs. Instead, they just refer these people to a psychologist. That seems to make sense, doesn’t it?
Yet, when we have people who want to mutilate themselves to “change their sex,” we don’t treat that as a mental disorder. Instead, we take it seriously. So seriously in fact, we have 9 year olds getting hormone treatments so they can pretend to be another gender.
If a client went to a doctor and said he thought he was a cow, we wouldn’t send him to a surgeon to get horns and udders attached. Yet, you can no more change your sex than you can change into a cow. Even if you have a “sex change,” your sex hasn’t actually changed. A man who mutilates himself to look like a woman, still isn’t female. He can’t have a child. Very few men are going to knowingly date a man who’s surgically mutilated himself to look like a woman. This is a terrible, horrible thing we’re doing as a society to these mentally ill people. Instead of getting them the mental help they need, we’re catering to their pathology. It’s cruel, it’s wrong, and a more compassionate society wouldn’t wallow so deeply in political correctness that we’d allow people to do this to themselves.
Narcotics....don't forget the narcotics.....Dude.
The American Psychological Association (APA) has been Collaborating With Madness since 1973 when it declared homosexualality to be normal. At first I thought that they had been blackmailed or were engaging in self indulgement. But now I see that they have given themselves a permanent meal ticket, there’s a lot more money in not curing a mental disorder.
Amen.
Transgender lunacy bump for later.....
very well said, Chode.
You know one of the founders of that organization was busted about two years ago in Eugene, OR for having sex with a 15 year old boy in a motel. Well wanting to have sex, it was a cop pretending. Jeffrey Bean is his name and his boyfriend helped to set up the meeting in a motel with a 15 year old to have sex.
The founder of the Human Rights Campaign was busted wanting to have sex with an under age boy. Never heard about it, right?
Where do they want to take this, to have sex with little boys, they are pushing for it and soon it will be legal, mark my words.
There is already a push to normalize pedophilia, from the Slate article saying the pedophile writer is a hero for not acting on the impulses to the DSM manual debates to say it isn’t immoral as long as you don’t act on it and it isn’t bad unless it makes you uncomfortable.
It is like homosexuality and transgenderism - the feelings aren’t bad, and the acts aren’t bad unless someone higher on the victimhood hierarchy is upset by it.
When an anorexic says they see fat, we don’t give the stomach stapling surgery.
When someone with a delusion says their face isn’t theirs, we don’t give them plastic surgery.
Yet when they have sexual identity disorders, we give them hormones and permission for surgery while demanding everyone else accommodate the delusion.
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