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[Rita_Poon]

Potentially but that would typically see an increase not a huge increase mate.

Mental health illnesses for me are depression, anxiety, bi polar, grief, alzheimers disease etc. Im not trying to play down conditions such as body dysphoria these conditions certainly do effect people negatively however again for me its more down to how our society is constructed that conditions like that exist whereas for example depression and anxiety will exist regardless - they exist in animals that are not bound by any society.

Alan Turing, you bigoted [Poor language removed]!

 

[Prevenger17]

Have ForeverCentrist and Catblaster formed a tag team? What a meeting of minds!

 

[Walken]

Here we go with the ill informed jumping to conclusions again.

Firstly, gender dysphoria is a massive issue for trans people, it's not just some switch that can be flipped and 'resolved'. Many battle with it throughout their lives. One thing is clear though, continuing to live as your original gender can seriously exacerbate the issue. It is literally impossible in most cases to deal with gender dysphoria and the associated conditions by continuing to live as your birth gender.


In the case of Emily here, her mother had to pull her out of school due to how intense the level of bullying she was receiving was. That bullying was also aimed at her school friends for merely associating with her, they all eventually stopped hanging around with her. So she was heading to school everyday, with no friends and being subjected to the most horrific bullying and from what I can tell her mental health was taking a severe nosedive as a result.

So what should a parent do in that situation?
Continue to send them to school into the constant bullying? Take them out of school and homeschool them (and all the associated issues that go with that, or force her to go back to another school as a boy, causing untold damage to her mental health?

The school, for the record, were of little help. This is a common theme amongst trans youngsters. It feels like the school purposely do as little as possible when it comes to the welfare of young trans people as it is easier to palm them off somewhere else than to take on the associated difficulties that can arise (changing rooms, toilets etc.)

The idea that you are comparing this to run of the mill school bullying is showing yet another level of your ignorance on this subject.
Growing up gay was difficult enough (I was a very confused young man) but from what I've seen, growing up as a young trans person is on another level.

Please take the time to actually learn about this stuff before throwing your opinion out there - it's making you look incredibly ignorant.

Excellent educational post, I think a lot forgot that 'I don't know' is often a legitimate answer and we should use our ears more on issues we haven't experienced

 

[Blue 1]

This thread is the most cringe thing on the internet at the moment.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Have ForeverCentrist and Catblaster formed a tag team? What a meeting of minds!

I knew it would happen. Top 3 GOT posters were always going to form an unholy (spiritual?) Alliance.

Just need the third prong of the trident of hogwash to magically appear...

 

[Prevenger17]

Mental health illnesses for me are depression, anxiety, bi polar, grief, alzheimers

There are 5 diseases of the brain, and not hundreds of thousands as previously thought. The medical community rejoice!

 

[4 Eyes Better Than 2]

You dont see a female peacock longing to be a male peacock - and in general terms for example "body image" you dont see a male rhino get depressed because its horn aint as big as the other males in the water hole.

I need a break from the internet..

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Yes.

I keep it real my friend I can't stay quiet whilst society is slowly strangled by disinformation.

I used to be in the same rat race as you chasing my tail but then I found spirituality and was saved and it really opened my eyes to the lies, BS, immorality and double standards that exists in our society.

Now I know you're on a windup

"My particular brand of woo let's me see clearer than people living with the issues I blithely dismiss"

 

[Blue 1]

Alzheimer's isn't a mental health issue. It's a degenerative brain disease. FFS.

Ugh. This thread.

 

[Moomin]

Have ForeverCentrist and Catblaster formed a tag team? What a meeting of minds!

The new Centrist party of complete twaddle and

 

[Prevenger17]

Alzheimer's isn't a mental health issue. It's a degenerative brain disease. FFS.

Ugh. This thread.

Scram, wokey

 

[Moomin]

Alzheimer's isn't a mental health issue. It's a degenerative brain disease. FFS.

Ugh. This thread.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I'm not religious in the slightest mate.

My spirituality is with mother nature and the elements hence why I am very scientific and factual in my outlook.

What you're seeing lately in recent years is an attack on science by the PC left in the same way religion attacked science in the dark ages.

Disinformation.

The PC left are anti science??

Who exactly are the PC left?

 

[Jebus_lives]

Alzheimer's isn't a mental health issue. It's a degenerative brain disease. FFS.

Ugh. This thread.

Grief is now a mental illness.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

The 5 Conditions of Mental Health Model by Professor Franklin Blue (1992)