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[–]IridescentAnaconda 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I understand what you are saying, but I would still distinguish Axis I from Axis II disorders, the latter being much more refractory to treatment. To the extent that transgender dysphoria is a mental illness, it is mostly Axis II: NPD or BPD.

[–]Aquadog[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Oh, I wasn't trying to claim anything other than the surface brush. It's the damaging rhetoric that having a mental illness is some sort of failing-and then saying that their own treatment is for...what exactly? It's ridiculous.

[–]Anonimouse 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It gets even weirder when you consider how the TRA discourse hated the idea of dysphoria as a criteria - that was just gate keeping. Now, there is no need to vaguely try and transition.

On one hand, we have taking lithium despite no bipolar. And then we also have claiming bipolar AND refusing treatment. Furthering the analogy, do we also have no bipolar, but wanting that sweet oppression point, so taking paracetamol in the form of wearing bad lipstick (makeup is a skill dammit) and maybe a skirt.

[–]Aquadog[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My mom is of the bipolar/refusing treatment/sometimes wanting the sweet oppression point and she does try to pull the bipolar sometimes if she's being mean or unfair (outside of a manic episode). And my family looks at that and we're like, this is her being crummy AND it's partially the mental illness (and let's not forget her own grief from being mentally ill in the first place). But for TRAs it's apparently neither because they can't be horrible, rude people and/or mentally ill.

[–]Anonimouse 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was actually struggling with writing that out. I have my own axis II fun, and have had a lot of difficulty with accepting treatment. It's like they're trying to remove every element of who I am.

[–]MezozoicGay 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

On one hand, we have taking lithium despite no bipolar

And worst part is that they are not only doing that to themselves, but forcing others (mostly children) who have no bipolar to take lithium.

[–]Aquadog[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Flip side is they're diagnosing kids who have bipolar with ADHD. Stimulants can cause their first manic episode :(