Camh - You Will Become Mentally Ill In 2013

[Guest Miss Aeryn]

A friend of mine sent me this link, which I found somewhat bizzare to say the least. Good to see Canadian tax dollars being so (ill)spent.

You will become mentally ill in 2013

Now CAMH "experts" have set their sights on declaring many of you mentally disordered because of your sexual preferences. Do you prefer people who are "too fat," or "too skinny," or "too tall," or "too short"? Do you think transgender people are beautiful, or do you prefer to date disabled people? Do you get tingly watching sexy cartoons or prefer dressing up and roleplaying during sex? Do you like dating people who are "too old" or "too young" for you? Under the expanded definition of "paraphilia" which CAMH experts hope to codify in 2013, you will likely become a mentally ill paraphilic. This diagnosis could then be put in your medical records and other databases, with all the attendant joys of being declared mentally disordered.

Do I think transgender people are beautiful? Yes. Ergo I am a menatally ill paraphillic. Awesome. Another label to add to the pile, grrrr.

[Sally]

Another giant step backwards in the Great White North!

I am tired of labels.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest ~Brenda~]

What is it with the labels? Why can't people just leave us alone? We are not monsters, nor crazy, nor dangerous. We are just people trying our best to live our lives as we can.

Why can't they see that?

Brenda

[Guest ChloëC]

Considering how many closeted whatevers there are in the religious ministry and in politics, I have to wonder if there are similar ratios in other (so-called) professions...like the medical profession, politics, judicial, to name a few. Amazing isn't it, how few politicians or doctors are found to have any 'disorders' at all. It must be wonderful to be perfect, and sit in judgement of others.

It's like that old religious admonition - let he who is without sin, cast the first stone - and then there is a rush to gather and cast stones for fear of being outed. Interesting how that works.

Chloë

[Guest Miss Aeryn]

A amazing perspective on CAMH from tsroadmap. Wow CAMH is dodgy.

[Guest Donna Jean]

." This is another way to describe reparative therapy similar to groups who claim to "cure" gays and lesbians.

Can't fix what ain't broken.....

Donna Jean

[Guest julia_d]

Using those criteria EVERYBODY is mentally ill... everybody. All people indulge in a little fantasy from time to time..

I would love to see a precise definition of somebody who is "phenotypically normal" .. especially from one of these weirdos who have "weaseled" themselves into high government positions.. good word "weaseled" ..

Is it a sign of mental illness to wear costumes while playing at home? .. Oh yeah? .. then I guess a sexy nightie comes in that definition of "mental aberation" .. and I would love to know how many sexually active women have at least one lacy nothing.. 90% or more? And what do their husbands think of them.. I guess they find them a turn on.. Or is it something wrong to prefer larger people.. or blondes.. or bald.. or fat.. or blue eyes? .. What do they define as "normal.. oh yes.. 6ft tall 20 year old blue eyed blondes.. that's what we should all be attracted to and want to breed with... eugenics.. but only if we are blue eyed 6 foot blondes under 20.. all the rest of us are perverts and mentally subnormal.. Oh dear.. here come the "reparative therapy" geniuses again sticking labels on others while REFUSING to tell where their personal sexual preferences and fantasies lie..

Adolf was a supporter of eugenics for his "master race" without thinking about if it came to the crunch he would have to stand up against the wall wit all the others who didn't conform to teh "ideal" ..

These people are dangerous and should be assessed by some real psychiatrists because I know who are the dangerously mentally ill.. the people who dream up this nonsense all the time and try to get it forced into law..

[Guest Robin Winter]

Ray Blanchard??? No wonder *Laughs*

That guy is a quack. That's the same guy who invented the term Autogynephilia and called it an illness. I can't believe he's working out of Canada now, and I'm absolutely offended that he managed to earn enough respect in his field to develop a following. Tsk tsk.

I wouldn't count on him succeeding with this particular plan.

[Guest CharlieRose]

While I can understand them wanting to classify those things as fetishes, (for a lot of people, those things aren't beautiful, just arousing, therefore, a fetish) that article says Blanchard is proposing a new definition of paraphilia as a mental illness in which one has a sexual preference for people who are "not normal". #1 Fetishes and sexual preferences are completely different. #2 Fetishes nor sexual preferences are mental illnesses, should not be classified as such and are really no business of your doctor or perhaps even your therapist. (Unless that's what you came there for)

[Guest sarah f]

I hope they don't try this in the US. We are not mentally ill they are the ones that are confused. If they don't understand that everyone is different in some way than they are the mental ones.

Sarah F

[Guest Charlene_Leona]

Well get ready Zucker & Blanchard are a couple of the nutz working on the next version of the DSM. If they have there way we will all be diagnosed nutz for eternity.

Take Care

Charlene Leona

[Guest Robin Winter]

I hope they don't try this in the US. We are not mentally ill they are the ones that are confused. If they don't understand that everyone is different in some way than they are the mental ones.

Sarah F

I don't think it'll get anywhere in Canada either. Blanchard is hardly an Icon of the medical community, he's just self-important.

[Guest Robin Winter]

Well get ready Zucker & Blanchard are a couple of the nutz working on the next version of the DSM. If they have there way we will all be diagnosed nutz for eternity.

Take Care

Charlene Leona

That wouldn't be so bad. If everyone was considered mentally ill, then we'd all officially be normal

[Guest Crow]

-puts head in hands- Oh cruel fate... Why'd I have to learn this... I'm embarassed that I actually live in the same province as him...

Although we Canadians aren't as accepting as we depict ourselves, I know that a number of people would be annoyed if they learned their tax dollars went to that....

[Guest Robin Winter]

-puts head in hands- Oh cruel fate... Why'd I have to learn this... I'm embarassed that I actually live in the same province as him...

Although we Canadians aren't as accepting as we depict ourselves, I know that a number of people would be annoyed if they learned their tax dollars went to that....

I was actually dumbfounded when I saw that our tax dollars actually ARE going to that. I didn't believe it at first, so I looked it up. Not all, but the majority of their funding is federal. It's tragic...

I wouldn't worry about this clown and their circus.

Sexology, I suspect is one of the sleeping sciences, and as soon as it starts to take off, buffoons who focus more on antiquated opinions will slip silently into silence as real knowledge lights the way.

Yep, I think so too.

[Guest Nigh]

Wait, does this mean no more hentai!

Oh yeah, the transgender thing is pretty outraging too.

[Guest ChalenAustin]

I am OUTRAGED!

This thing can't pass! I mean the heavy people won't stand for this, you're bashing the fashion industry upside the head- again!

You can't tell me that businesses will be happy that their sexiest cartoons are leading to a mental disease.

Tell me no one here loved Roger Rabbit's wife Jessica?

We're fighting this thing RIGHT?

wE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO STAND HERE FEELING SORRY FOR OURSELVES WHELL THIS EXCUSES FOR HUMAN BEINGS ARE TRYING TO PASS THIS???????!!!!!!!!!!!

If we all die in 2012 this is why.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????

Please tell me there's groups working on this.

And you can't tell me these "people" who write this crap are in the recommended weight scale/whatever.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest Robin Winter]

I am OUTRAGED!

This thing can't pass! I mean the heavy people won't stand for this, you're bashing the fashion industry upside the head- again!

You can't tell me that businesses will be happy that their sexiest cartoons are leading to a mental disease.

Tell me no one here loved Roger Rabbit's wife Jessica?

We're fighting this thing RIGHT?

wE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO STAND HERE FEELING SORRY FOR OURSELVES WHELL THIS EXCUSES FOR HUMAN BEINGS ARE TRYING TO PASS THIS???????!!!!!!!!!!!

If we all die in 2012 this is why.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????

Please tell me there's groups working on this.

And you can't tell me these "people" who write this crap are in the recommended weight scale/whatever.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Relax sweetie, this will never fly. These people are only respected among themselves, and I will never figure out how they get funding. I suspect it's more for their addictions work.

[Guest ChalenAustin]

I should hope not!

Just be sure I alerted all my frinds in the lgbt community baout this.

All two of them!

[Guest Elizabeth K]

My stupid answer (everone has given a good reply - so this is okay).

TOO LATE! By 2013 - I will already have finished my transitioning! Everyone will think I am just an opinionated woman (am now actually) and the word 'transgendered" won't cross their minds!

" I declarah! Whyuh doz she support those 'people' so rigerously?!?...."

[Heard as I leave the bridge table temporarialy, to 'pay my watah bill!']

"...An' those diahmonds, my dearah! Such a show off... you think they are paste?"

Lizzy

[Guest ChalenAustin]

Ha ha! That's funny!

"whuy ah do declarah!"

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

My stupid answer (everone has given a good reply - so this is okay).

TOO LATE! By 2013 - I will already have finished my transitioning! Everyone will think I am just an opinionated woman (am now actually) and the word 'transgendered" won't cross their minds!

" I declarah! Whyuh doz she support those 'people' so rigerously?!?...."

[Heard as I leave the bridge table temporarialy, to 'pay my watah bill!']

"...An' those diahmonds, my dearah! Such a show off... you think they are paste?"

Lizzy

Lizzy y'all know what, I dont even consider myself transgendered now (although technically I still am). I am a woman; sweet(or not so) and simple. Hopefully by May of 2011 I will have completed this part of my journey. If the world should end in 2012 at least I will have had sometime to be me before it happens