20 years ago i would of been mentally ill

interesting read about re-orientation now and then ... things have changed ... but not enough if this still go's on


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3258041.stm

sexy-girl said:

interesting read about re-orientation now and then ... things have changed ... but not enough if this still go's on


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3258041.stm

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Hey, from the "freshly inducted" psychiatrists point of view, wouldn't it piss a doctor off to find out that he spent 12 years in school, just so he could medicate someone cuz they were inclined towards the same sex?
Fuck, this doesn't even make sense to me. Nevermind. Anyone get what I'm saying?

don't worry. you might still be mentally ill. it's the new black. everyone is doing it.

Homosexuality was the only 'disease' to be cured overnight. It was defined as an illness in the book which doctors use (cant remeberthe name) in one edition, when the next edition came out homosexuality wasnt a disease.

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"For 72 hours I lay in my own excrement and dirt, scared out of my wits," he says. He begged to be let out of the hospital after the psychiatrist told him the next stage of the treatment involved attaching electrodes to his penis"

truth is stranger than fiction.

Scott X said:

"For 72 hours I lay in my own excrement and dirt, scared out of my wits," he says. He begged to be let out of the hospital after the psychiatrist told him the next stage of the treatment involved attaching electrodes to his penis"

truth is stranger than fiction.

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what i found sort of odd was it took all that for him to realize that he was gay and accept it

it shows that even now that it can be hard to work out you're gay and thats why society needs to be more accepting towards gays ... not looking for "cures" and then people will be able to accept themselves as being gay easier

Astro said:

Homosexuality was the only 'disease' to be cured overnight. It was defined as an illness in the book which doctors use (cant remeberthe name) in one edition, when the next edition came out homosexuality wasnt a disease.

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I believe that the book that you're referring to is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). I think homosexuality was in DSM-II and removed for DSM-III. A prof in one of my abnormal psych classes used it as an example of disorders being culturally defined, in that homosexuality didn't drastically change, just our culture's acceptance of it.

Interesting that Prof. Spitzer, whose work claimed to have "helped" 78% of his gay "patients", was actually one of those who helped remove the homosexuality from the DSM (at least according to the article)