The thing about the politicized "detrans" communities is that just like the "ex-gay" communities before them, they're pretty much lying about there being a "talking cure" for dysphoria If you peek at their own discussions with each other dysphoria is still a constant struggle
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Replying to @And4women @elliotreed and
Yeah no If you go really broad then yeah there's no "final cure" for anything, we all know that transition doesn't make dysphoria suddenly vanish But it works a hell of a lot better at alleviating dysphoria than any form of therapy does
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
This conversation is confused to begin with because "depression" should really be thought of as a symptom or cluster of symptoms that we think of as one "condition" for convenience's sake There is no one cause of depression, there are many - and some of those CAN be "cured"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
TERFs like to say that depression and dysphoria are "comorbid conditions" when really depression is a symptom of dysphoria, as it is a symptom of so many other things Many people who become paralyzed also become depressed, are those "comorbid conditions"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
When we say "depression" it's often difficult to pick apart what should properly be called "major depressive disorder" and mere "situational depression", because the world sucks and so many people's situations have always been bad But changing situations *does* treat depression
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
It's very, very obvious that unemployment and poverty both cause and greatly exacerbate depression You'd have to be a real shitty therapist to look at someone in that situation and say "Well getting money is beside the point, they need to learn coping strategies for being poor"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
"Why would you suggest giving someone money, a mere *financial* remedy that affects the bank account, for what is clearly a *psychological* disorder affecting the brain?" (And of course plenty of conservative pundits do say shit just like this all the time)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
now i'm having flashbacks to the horror of biomedical ethics and everyone just constantly conflating metaphysical/moral issues concerning what "kind" of condition something is with causal questions about how to create or remove it
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
people are extremely dumb about this, it turns out
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I have so little respect for "bioethics" as a discipline There is so much tallying up and taxonomizing various forms of "Eww, icky!" people feel and so little asking why the fuck we should give a shit about those feelings
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