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- Jan 28, 2018
As much I too love bitching about how horrible transitioning is, it does help emotional pain. Well kinda, I think it’s mostly placebo effect and sort of accidental byproduct of things around transitioning, but still transitioning can and does help some people dealing with their issues at least momentarily. I say this not because I’m for transitioning (I’m more and more against it in all most all situations) but because it’s hard to stop people from doing something self harming if you don’t really understand what they are getting out of it. Transitioning gives you not only something to blame your unhappiness for but also something to aim for, easy to observe results, reson to get out of your comfort zone, company and community among other things. It’s fairly similar to eating disorders in that sense. Of course if you happen to be a narcissist or otherwise complete drama queen and/or control freak, the current social climate gives you extra attention and allows demanding behavior well beyond normal. Still to a right kind of crazy that can give easily multiple years of happiness or at least lessen the misery before the eventual crash.
It's about as helpful as telling somebody with anorexia nervosa to just throw up if he feels fat, it's the completely wrong approach to the underlying mental illness. These people are not a different gender and just playing along obviously does not turn them into normal people but seems to be more maladaptive. Sadly this topic has been so politicized that it basically has turned into an ideology and before a serious society shift we'll never have proper handling of these cases.
Also this thread really should get an infected tag imho.