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Is being homosexual a mental disorder?
Homosexuality was once considered a mental disorder. Frequently, health professionals would study homosexuals in prison or in mental hospitals. And, guess what, they found they were in significant distress or impaired in personal functioning. Not really genius level work there. In those days, it wasRead more
Homosexuality was once considered a mental disorder. Frequently, health professionals would study homosexuals in prison or in mental hospitals. And, guess what, they found they were in significant distress or impaired in personal functioning. Not really genius level work there.
See lessIn those days, it was not uncommon to treat homosexuality with brain surgery or castration as well as other forms of torture. But as more and more people began to do more careful studies, and they realized that homosexuality did not fit the definition of impairment in personal functioning. In fact, they found that despite the hate and discrimination, homosexuals were establishing stable couples and raising happy families. They have successful careers and achieved high levels of education. They were not sick at all in any way. I frequently read rants where people insist that gay people should get help and seek psychiatric assistance. No credible mental health professional will treat gayness as an illness. Let me restate that for emphasis. No credible mental health professional will treat gayness as an illness.
Have you ever used a ouija board— what happened after you did?
When I was a teenager, I had couple of experiences with a ouija board We would ask the spirit to do something to prove that they existed. On one occasion we took a deck of 52 cards and shuffled them thoroughly. We then laid them out, face down, all the way round the edge of our oval dining room tablRead more
When I was a teenager, I had couple of experiences with a ouija board We would ask the spirit to do something to prove that they existed. On one occasion we took a deck of 52 cards and shuffled them thoroughly. We then laid them out, face down, all the way round the edge of our oval dining room table. We then took a stemmed wine glass, placed it upside-down on the table and (we were two persons) we placed our fingers on the wine glass. We then asked the spirit to pick out the four aces. The glass moved quite slowly at first and I believed that my friend was pushing it. The glass moved over to one of the cards, touched it, and stopped. We turned over the card and it was an ace. We replaced our fingers on the upturned wineglass and this time it moved more quickly with seemingly reduced friction with the table. It touched the end of a card almost knocking it off the table. This second card was also an ace. The third time the glass was moving very quickly and we almost had to run around the table to keep up with it. It struck a card knocking it off the table onto the floor. The card was an ace. At the last attempt although we stated with our fingers on the glass we could not keep up with it and the glass moved on its own. It moved so fast it ran off the table taking the fourth card with it and hit the wall. The card was the fourth ace in the pack. I have no explanation for what happened, till date.
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