It would only be cherry picking if person after person had not come on the thread worrying about what effect this thread on suicide might have on transgenders stumbling upon it and reading it; life or death concerns even that have lead to repeated calls to shut the discussion down even.
The behavior in question is manipulation through suicide, which is a common enough tendency among borderlines, and pyschopaths too for that matter.
By the worries expressed about transgenders reading things here, it seems to be a tendency among transgenders too.
Since so little is known, according to the pyschologist who post here, this seems like a potentially fruitful line of research to follow.
But I don’t want to delve into matters that are better left off as private matters between a poster and his or her psychiatrist.
Warning that a group is prone to suicide does
not constitute threat of suicide. This is
not manipulation, it is being in touch with reality. If I found myself personally in danger of suicide by reading this thread, I would get as far as way as possible and never come back. However, at certain points earlier in life, I am not sure I would have handled it the same way. But then I also kept away from online forums.
That a group is prone to suicide, does
not mean they share traits with borderline personality disorder. It simply means their lives are extraordinarily difficult. As I said, I could just as well say that “conservatives have things in common with borderline personality disorder, since they often exhibit black-and-white thinking.” But this would be wrong, since black-and-white thinking alone is not indicative of borderline personality disorder. It would also ignore that liberals think just as black-and-white at times.
That little is known, does
not mean that little is known in regard to the mental parts of it. We know very well how transsexualism presents psychologically; what we know less about is how it is caused. That said, we
do know that the brains of transgender individuals have significant differences from the normal population, in that the gender dimorphic parts are more resembling of the opposite chromosomal sex. We
do know that differentiation of the brain happens independently from the reproductive system. There are still many answers to be found, but that the condition is neurological in nature is
no longer in question. Whether these neurological differences merely dispose the person to develop gender dysphoria, or whether they will always cause it, is one thing that is not known. But nevertheless, it is
not true that we do not know enough to conclude that it is a real condition with physiological causes.
I agree it is best to leave this aside - you’ve hit a blind road here. Psychiatrists have noted since the very beginning of diagnosis of this condition, that there is no present personality disorder or delusion. Actually, personality disorders
may be contraindicative of treatment (unless one can justify that it is secondary and not primary), and delusions are
always contraindicative.
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