Thread by @NotableDesister

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This article demonstrates why I have nearly "zero" respect any longer for the mental health fields of psychiatry and psychology.

chicagonow.com/shades-gender/…

Heard of the "feeling different" narrative in nearly every gender transition?

"It didn’t make sense to me that I should want to do this and I began to feel bad about myself and I began to feel like an outsider, like no one would understand me or I didn’t fit in with other boys."

Going deeper into this article, you would think a male admitting to secretly entering the rooms of their mother and sister to dress in their clothing would raise a red flag with a therapist, wouldn't you?

Isn't that like a problem with serious boundary issues?

Q. "Did you ever get caught in the act of cross-dressing as a teenager? If so, what happened and how did you feel about it?"

A. "About the time of puberty, I was drawn to clothes again and would dress in my sister’s clothes when alone at home, but never got caught in the act."

You might also think this type of behavior would raise questions about things such as impulse control and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

"The evolution of the notion of deviant sexuality has led to a degree of confusion as to its legitimacy as genuine medical conditions"

"rather than sexual lifestyle choices or in some cases sexual behaviour determined by criminal disposition. The case for paraphilias as real medical entities is based on their inclusion in the international classifications, that they can be diagnosed according to various defined"

"symptoms and behaviour, that they might be regarded as a form of impulse control disorder or on the obsessional compulsive spectrum, or as an intrinsic abnormality of sexual development as earlier noted, that they have a high level of comorbidity with a range of other mental"

"disorders, they may be associated with elevated risk of harm to self and others and that there is increasingly effective treatment available."

wfsbp.org/fileadmin/user…

So mental health practitioners would want to help people with these problems to get their impulses and obsessions under control, right?

But when it comes to these behaviors under the transgender umbrella, you probably won't be shocked at all to learn something different happens.

Instead, mental health clinicians instruct people such as myself and this person to accept our sexually deviant cross-dressing behaviors:

Q. "Did you ever see a psychologist? If so, what did they say about your need to cross-dress?"

A. "I confided in someone about my cross-dressing and they referred me to a psychologist. I worked with him for several months and was told that I needed to accept my behavior as it wasn’t wrong, or harmful, and that there didn’t seem to be anything else wrong with me."

Question: But why in the world would psychologists or therapists tell someone with a cross-dressing sexual fetish to just accept their behavior and recommend that they keep doing it?

Answer: Because the mental health folks who author the treatment guides such as the DSM have prescribed "acceptance" as the treatment.

"Psychotherapy, when indicated, is aimed at self-acceptance and modulating risky behaviors."

What's the definition of risky behaviors?

Getting caught in your sister's room in her underwear?

Getting caught in a school parking lot in your wife's clothing?

Define it for us DSM'ers.

So what's the harm in teaching acceptance?

The harm is the untreated sexual fetish later becomes so out of control that you develop a second personality, an inner female, and begin to feel the need to undergo a gender transition because the behavior keeps escalating.

"Later in life, sometimes in their 50s or 60s, cross-dressing men may present for medical care because of gender dysphoria symptoms and may then meet diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria."

merckmanuals.com/professional/p…

Oh, now it's "gender dysphoria" and you've progressed to being born in the wrong body and the equivalent of natal females in the eyes of the law.

No harm, just stress relief, right?

"I was 24 at the time and he told me that the behavior was more of a stress-reliever and that people do all sorts of things to relieve stress and it was a lot safer than sky diving, so rather than try to change my behavior, to stay with it."

Again, no shortage of literature pointing to underlying mental health issues that need to be treated:

"What if people are engaging in certain sexual behaviors to cope or to deal with PTSD or other mental health problems?"

research.va.gov/currents/0617-…

But people like me have been taught that resistance is futile, that we must accept this. Even worse, we must embrace it.

"Ego-dystonic transvestites, throughout their lives, make repeated and usually vain efforts to overcome their anomaly. Vowing to renounce cross-dressing,"

"they periodically destroy all their feminine clothes, only to begin the process of acquiring new ones a few months later. This cycle of wardrobe purge and acquisition is also seen in many young transvestites who later come to accept their deviation."

individual.utoronto.ca/ray_blanchard/…

But it's not like this is rocket science or unexplored mental health territory, nearly everything the mental health practitioners need to know to put the pieces together to avoid the catastrophe of men destroying their families and lives has already been written years ago.

"The combination of the initial autoerotic retreat with the elaboration of the fetishistic interest into complete cross-dressing, and possibly the development of a feminine personality within the individual as an alter ego to his male personality (78% feel themselves a different"

"personality when dressed in women's clothes, provides a synthetic dyad within the individual which gives him the libidinal rewards of both narcissistic and dyadic regression.

tbuckner.com/TRANSVES.HTM

The cycle is vicious if left untreated. Acceptance is not the answer. Cleaning up the mental health profession is the solution.