The functional definition of Mental Illness
The functional definition of "Mental Illness" is "Do your issues interfere with the activities of normal life?"
We all have "symptoms" of mental illness. We all have quirks.
Normal, developmental stages of life also resemble the symptoms of mental illness. Most teenagers go through a phase where they compulsively argue. But that is a normal phase that nearly all of them grow out of. It is not an illness as long as they don't get stuck there.
Those behaviors do not rise to the level of diagnosable "illness" if we, as adults, can function smoothly in modern life.
For example: Consider somebody who is stressed by crowds. It is not considered a mental illness if they can work and shop and do all of the other things considered parts of ordinary life.
That person might have several coping mechanisms. They might work third-shift stocking shelves or they might be a cobbler who very rarely has more than two customers in his shop at a time. Maybe they work from home as a seamstress. At that point, it is not considered a mental illness.
But if the company eliminated third-shift and the person locks-up and cannot find another job, then it becomes diagnosable because the demands of everyday tasks changed and suddenly exceeded that person's capability to execute them.
ADA and Mental Illness
The Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) was interpreted as covering mental illness and employers are expected to make "reasonable accommodations" to employ people who are diagnosed with mental illnesses. That is problematic because there are no objective tests to diagnose mental illness. There is no blood test nor imaging technology like there are for diabetes or brain tumors.
Catch 22
If a delusional behavior like transgenderism is very pointedly written out of the Mental Illness Diagnostic Manual, then why are "reasonable accommodations" still being made for it?
And many of those accommodations ended up being far more than "reasonable". There is a 125,000 square-feet factory in southern-Michigan where the single "transgender" employee is allowed to use the Plant Manager's personal restroom and shower (only accessible through a door in his private office) because they filed a complaint stating that they "didn't feel safe" using the one for their pretend gender. Having worked in a factory and knowing the near-godlike powers and the number of confidential issues (often involving personnel) that are handled in the office of the Plant Manager, that access to his office is inconceivable to me.
The barroom lawyer cannot stand on Title XI (against sexual discrimination). Sex is in your chromosomes. Transgender is gender which we are repeatedly told is totally different than XX, XY and YY.
Which brings us back to "Transgenderism is a delusional mental illness where the patient is incapacitated when others don't play along with their delusion".
Bonus argument
Many mental illnesses are cursed with accompanying comorbidities. There is a cascading effect of suboptimal "maladjustments" as the brain tries to cope while still cherishing the original bad decisions.
Even proponent of the transgender movement admit that transgenders are a bundle of mental illnesses although they attribute those mental illnesses to society "not accepting them".
It is interesting that kids are diagnosed with autism before they decide they are transgender. How can society's discrimination work backward in time?
From personal observation the rise in Transgender is directly linked to their parents AND sadly their TEACHERS.
ReplyDeleteMy subject group is only three so far but all three the single mothers involved encouraged it, supported it and paid for transitional efforts. Even taking them out of state for "treatments". All three are in the same private school with the same teacher.
AND they are quite PROUD of their efforts to "Support" their new "daughter-nee son" in this effort.
Like that 1950's era Meme says, "Mommy I think I'm a boy" and Mom says, "no you're not".
Like the psyop of COVID this isn't organic but forced propaganda.
I have a table with a pot of coffee if you'd like to discuss this.
Snipers not invited.
I think it’s less mental illness and more about conditioning and brainwashing. Cults do this kind of thing all the time. Weak minds are no match for it.
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason that Communists have focused on education for over a centuy- they know it is the best time to shape people into what they want.
DeleteMore recently, I have read of liberals who hate kids writing kids books because it's an easy way to influence them.
Jonathan
If you truly believe you are something you are not, IMHO you are mentally ill. If you think you are Superman, JC, a furry or woman trapped in a man's body, please seek proffesional help.
ReplyDeleteThe diagnosis is wrong. The child doesn't have a gender issue, their MOTHER is bug-nuts crazy and should be locked away before she destroys her child's life.
ReplyDeleteThinking/dressing/living like you are something you're not is nuts... If you go out in the world and tell everyone that you are Napoleon? How is that not nuts?
ReplyDeleteHow different is that from thinking/dressing/living as the opposite sex?
Delusions are scary indeed, especially when the individuals lash out when their delusions aren't ahered to.
ReplyDeleteIf you think trannies are bad, you'd be mortified to hear about a much larger group that convinces themselves elections are stolen only when their side loses. The way they lash out makes access to a private bathroom look like a small inconvenience.
Stay vigilant!
I hear that you are concerned about the size of the larger group...roughly 60,000,000 people if I read your drift.
DeletePlease elaborate on the ways they lashed out. Be specific. Which mass shootings did they participate in as perpetrators? Which cities did they burn? Identify the stores they looted.