September 8th: On Alter Egos, Dissociative Disorders, and Freud

[akalaynee]

MARZ!!!! i missed you!

and yay for not confusing schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder (and for using the p.c. name for multiple personality disorder)

freud, preverted? what? no.

and right now there is a debate about whether or not transgendered people should be in the DSM or not.

other really good books that deal with psychology are 'Kissing Doorknobs' (forgot the author) which is about obsessive compulsive disorder and 'Dry" by Agusten Burroughs (alcoholism)

[sevenawsomenerds]

Yeah I don't get that whole Transgendered in the DSM thing. I mean it has psychological complications but...well I look at it from a rather odd viewpoint. Anyways.

I MISSED YOU TOO!

[akalaynee]

quite a few of the psychological complications are form society trying to put gender and sexuality into a box; male, female, straight, gay..... it doesn't work like that, it's more like a spectrum.

with trangenderism in the DSM they can get medical help for procedures and medications, but then it groups them in with mental illness which has a HUGE stigma in society. but with it not in the DSM they don't have the medical and therapy support and they also don't have the 'crazy' label.

[TisiphoneSeraph]

Very very true. We were talking about this today in psychology; how people are on a spectrum rather than set groups and how people who are gender neutral don't have a box to fix into and society ends up thinking they're weird and stuff. Same with Transgendered as well.

I really really hate that mental illness has that bad connotation. It's one of my biggest pet peeves. Because most of us at some point or another will have a mental illness. I mean I have/do. I hate that people misunderstand it.