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[Aractus]

 there's no such thing as a mental disorder.

Apparently in this article the phenomena of mental disorders exist but there's no such thing as them because why should they be defined that certain way. What the fuck, if the phenomena exists what the fuck does he expect us to call the phenomena? SOMETHING I would think. Why not mental disorders? Sigh.

Just bothers me when people suggest everything that is wrong with something but produce no better alternatives and the mere absence of an alternative is worse than the 'problem' they are critiquing. Sigh.

The phenomena is "disharmony with people's mental health" or something along those lines. Labelling things we don't understand as "disorders" is what the author I linked to is opposed to.

BIID actually is a disorder.  It's a real disorder and it doesn't have to be associated with transsexuality.  I know, probably better than damn near anyone here, that it IS associate with us, but it doesn't have to be.  Truth be told, the legitimate medical professionals, most of the ones who actually matter, they'll dismiss that association instantly.  They actually understand the difference.  If someone legitimately has BIID, I don't hate them, I feel bad for them; the ones I get pissed at are the asshats in the media or in the political arena who don't know the difference between the two.  

Why do we notice these stories?  Because they're rare and because they're rare, they tend to be sensationalist.  If it was something that happened all the time, we wouldn't even notice.  This is how the news works.  

Truth is, if she decides she wants to blind herself and a trained, licensed medical professional helped her with it, more power to them.  I'm willing to bet that a professional who has dedicated years of his life to his field, and knows he can be sued and lose his medical license if something goes wrong, I would think he knows the situation better than I do and cares about the situation enough to resolve it properly.  I mean, yeah, it might seem strange to me, but I'm surethere are plenty of people out there who think it's strange to want to have your testicles removed.

With all due respect Tara, the similarities between BIID and GID are obvious to anyone. The "procedure" was carried out a psychologist not a psychiatrist - so no they don't have the right to perform surgeries on people, but with that said the patient is much happier now, so there would be no reason to go after the psychologist for mistreatment of a patient/professional misconduct.

GID is also "actually a disorder", as I mentioned earlier labelling mental conditions as "disorders" is not necessarily always right. Some patients don't mind being told they have a disorder - but depending on the patient and depending on the condition they have, there are plenty who do not feel their condition should be viewed as a 'disorder'.