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Originally Posted by kevmartin  Indeed. As I said earlier, I think the majority of the population suffers from some degree of 'mental illness'. We can make similar illustrations about addiction for example, and see that as a mental illness. For (a legal) example, someone foregoing health insurance or medical treatment because they can't afford it, while at the same time spending hundreds of dollars a month on cigarettes, or nightclubbing. Or, where does the line lie between 'staying in shape' and an 'eating disorder'? |
I think to be considered legally insane, one has to not know something is wrong. But that doesn't even apply to what we're talking about. You ask good questions.
I know people who obsess about exercising and eating right. Then, like you mention, there are those with eating disorders. People addicted to alcohol or cigarettes are addicted.
The real question is "what do we do for them?" Someone who goes to the doctor and says he smokes too much is treated to remove his addiction, not provided with more cigarettes. An overweight person is helped to get to a healthy weight.
But when someone thinks they are a different gender, they are enabled, not treated by some in the "medical community." They mutilate their genitals and pump them full of hormones that make them ill, just so when they stand in front of a mirror there's an illusion that they look like the opposite sex now. That's just allowing them to delude themself on another level. Its hurting them more, not helping them.