I am not. I have never wanted boobs, worn lipstick, wanted hips. I just see myself as really gay and I feel like he/him implies a sort of normal dude ethos that i am not. If i could change, I’d be taller and have bigger shoulders. I just like dudes. I am posting on lemmy, why would I lie?

I havent lied at all on here… except for the username. This is clearly an alt account… 🫣

When did I say I didn’t want to exist? I never said that.

In former years, they used to lobotomize difficult people, destroying neural connectiins so they would be agreeable and stupid.

They financially do the same thing to people these days. “Oh just call this number, oh they are just here to help!”

Would you expect me to respond meekly to someone suggesting a lobotomy? No? Then why are you suggesting I respond meekly to someone suggesting I do something that could cost me $25,000 and lead to homelessness?

Most of the people who get locked up give up on financial stability and just go on SSI because it’s pointless to try to have financial security after that. (The mental industry loves that because then they have a permanent meal, like a vampire who keeps it’s captive alive with free blood transfusions from the government.) You are obviously in that industry or know someone who is or you wouldn’t respond with such irrational deference to what is in fact extreme financial exploitation of the vulnerable.

Go fuck off. I did not post this question to get a barrage of mental health help. All I said is I don’t know if I’ll be here in a decade and I’m instantly bombarded with “go get therapy.” It’s so presumptious. I could have a fatal illness. You don’t know my situation. I asked a question about pronouns and absolutely wasn’t looking for medical mental health advice nor did I want it. Leave me the hell alone.

If you say you’re considering going to a hospital they will talk you out of it

If you say you don’t want involuntary treatment, they’ll get the battering ram

They do not always force everyone into involuntary treatment but they get caller IDs and can send police and force people to be locked up, with devestating financial consequences. A small weekend crisis can decend into long term financial instability or even homelessness if someone calls 988. Involuntary care is always horribly expensive.

A hospital stay of 25,000, which would not be an abnormal cost for a month long involuntary stay, can be taken from you by a collections company by seizing a car you use to get to work and deducting money directly from your paycheck. The financial hell can last years.

If the mental health industry really “cared” they wouldn’t engage in brutal exploitation like that. Upset about the lack of a car and the collections company taking your wages and even more in an abyss? If you complain to 988, they’ll lock you up again and increase the debt more, then let you out on new drugs to go stay at a shelter if you’ve lost your housing while continuing their collection practices. They fundamentally don’t care and are a den of vipers that selectively target their prey for maximum resource extraction.

Although 988 and the involuntary hospitals and personelle and collections companies are not one monolith, they are all heads of the same hydra that emerges when a person is at their weakest, looking for its next meal.

They pretend mental health is the priority and everything else must come second, ignoring the reality that extreme financial distress always results in misery, then cause long-term financial distress by exploiting the legal and regulatory environment to charge exorbanant prices when someone can’t refuse treatment. They are not stupid and know the horrific impact of severe financial distress, which they cause, hurts the downtrodden. They continue to operate this way because money has corrupted them. Often the medications they prescribe, such as SSRIs, do not even have statistically meaningful improvement outcomes as compared to a sugar pill as measured by metastudies. They know this, and also know a patient held captive will say anything, including a sugar pill is helping, to stop being held captive by a corrupt and deranged greedy industry.

Like a well-dressed vampire inviting you over for supper, they always seem nice until you are powerless, and if they don’t end up extracting as many resources as possible from you they know you’ll go on to be their cheerleader to bring in the next round of prey, and so occasionally they don’t exploit select people to keep up appearances.

Congratulations on being their cheerleader.

(Also, I am not a scientologist, I believe the earth is round, global warming is real, and that some medications, including psychiatric medications, have statistically meaningful impacts to justify usage. I believe in the scientific method. But fuck the mental health industry and the vile scum of the industry who exploit those at their weakest and call the exploitation healing.)

You’re wrong. It is entirely valid for me to think this.

The entire profession is different labels for the same polluted over-priced tainted water, and even if people didn’t enter the profession to become controlling charlitans and grifters, the rules of the profession ensure that transmogrification happens sooner or later.

OMG NO

How would you know if my hatred of the mental health industry is valid? You haven’t lived my life or endured the hell I endured. They are ALL vile.

I appreciate the gesture, but after my terrible mental health industry experiences, I pass on all of it, even in anonymous reading format.

I think it’s easy to mistake trauma for personality. I used to be vivacious. The only treatments for trauma involve interaction with the mental health industry. I am not willing to do that after terrible previous experiences.

I wouldn’t want nullification surgery. I used to be very sexual and am mostly not due to trauma, not because of feeling like an inherent asexual or genderless person.

What is nullification surgery?

I definitely still like dudes too much to do anything like that, without knowing what it is. I am mostly asexual via alienation.

988 is a great way to line the pockets of the medical establishment, get labeled with a diagnosis to become a second class citizen, and get a medical bill for tens of thousands of dollars. The only person that line benefits are big pharma and the medical industrial complex. You are either naive or cruel as to the financial implications of what you suggest. Involuntary stays, and 988 regularly results in those for unweary callers, are enormously expensive and you don’t have an option as to whether accept the treatment and bill once they come to haul you away.

988 regularly sends people to lock people up in hospitals resulting in HUGE medical bills that financially wreck people.

I am not planning on doing anything. Please provide your government trap number to someone less naive.

I didnt know that. I thought when people said they/them it meant gender fluid and was a different type of identity.

I think “they” is probably a specific gender identity and using that would be like coming out as not male, but i do feel male. I dont think it would be accurate.

When you mention identity, I don’t feel gender fluid. I am just very gay and disconnected from everything and I feel like defining my pronouns may imply a level of caring about labels that doesn’t represent my general indifference.

I feel like any and all would imply a fluidity more than feelings of disconnectedness, as though I identify as multiple genders, and I don’t. I just mostly don’t care and barely feel like a person. I don’t wear dresses or want to. When I say i’m effeminate, i just mean my voice and mannerisms don’t sound masculine. Perhaps I should actually use (he/him) but I feel like that implies typical male dude and that doesn’t really accurately describe me.

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You may be right.

I don’t think this is correct.

They wont reveal their code and leaders in the US are too uncomfortable. With a conservative court, a ban will be not found unconstitutional.

I dislike ads that don’t indicate the functional benefits of the product and instead nake it about the product being aspirational or about my worth.

The “You’re worth getting some deliciousness” for a chocolate bar would be an example.

I’d rather know if the chocolate was ethical, the price, and sweetness level.

I would do it!

I’ll have to learn all those skills and I might be a bad mod, but why not?