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LGBT News A reminder from the World Health Organization: LGBT people are not “sick”

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    A reminder from the World Health Organization: LGBT people are not “sick” - Salon.com

    Thank you WHO!
     
    #1 RainDreamer, Sep 5, 2014
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    This is a wonderful step towards acceptance for LGBT+ individuals and for helping to clean up what is currently a very messy diagnostic system (I'll suppose we'll get it somewhere close to reasonable by the DSM 10 and ICD 20...maybe...).

    I also agree with the WHO's implication that LGBT+ individuals with depression or anxiety need treatment of their being depressed or anxious and not of their being LGBT+ (I can personally testify that, even in LGBT+ individuals in homophobic situations, depression and anxiety run *much* deeper than just being LGBT+).

    Thank you for sharing this. :slight_smile:
     
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    I hate to disagree but I do have a touch of hayfever right now I believe, fortunately it does not seem to be serious.
     
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    Oh i'm very sick :badgrin:

    In all seriousness Bravo, Every little helps.
     
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    We'll technically I am, I have a cold.
     
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    That would be great. Simply being LGBT+ makes you immune to all disease, illness and disorders. If only. If only being human did that.
    I guess WHO are still needed.
    "GET BACK IN YA TARDIS AND GO SAVE THE UNIVERSE YOU LAZY **** YOU! "
     
    #6 Ryujin, Sep 5, 2014
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    Damn it, I was hoping use that as an excuse the next time I tried to get off work...
     
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    If this understanding is widely held, why is 'reparative therapy' allowed? Could it not be seen as a kind of abuse of someone in a vulnerable position (ie, a depressed person)? It ought to be made illegal.
     
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    More from the article that I haven't quoted:

    Emphasis mine.
     
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    Thank you, World Health Organization :grin:.
     
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    It's still a great shame that it took the WHO until the early 1990's to determine that homosexuality is not a mental illness. They took far too long.
     
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    I think it's sad that the world needs to be reminded of that.. But every step that takes the ignorance away, is a good step.
     
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    getting there step by step
    but hating LGBT people is engraved in our society so i think we need like 500 years to
    truly succeed
     
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    And the people I know ask me why I usually look so worried... The ironic thing is, sometimes certain people ask that a few seconds after they make a gay joke or some other dumb thing. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to tell you. :dry:

    But I am grateful to WHO for the reminder. It's good to know that someone's on our side.
     
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