I know all three

Being trans is by the definition mentall illnes.

wasn't there a study that showed trans sign up to fight at a higher rate than the normal population?

What is it preventing a person from doing? What is the disability?

@Grenade123 , I've heard that, too.

I think you have missunderstood definition of mentall illness.

if you want to go by the DSM5, say goodbye to like 80% of the military

I'm board certified in psychiatry. I'm listening. 😃

Exactly, @Grenade123 .

Dont say you are pushing that mentall illness to kids.

Probably 1/4 of the enlisted military has ADD.

@Jasse , I'm not pushing anything on anyone

"oh, you survived basic training? well according to the DSM5 you now probably have some version of PTSD, and probably several other side effects.... technically these mental illnesses keep you alive but normal people call them weird so goodbye"

I'm a hospital administrator

I deal with medications. I'm not a shrink. :p

is ADD even really a mental illness? Thats one of those where i feel like people who think they know better go "this is clearly abnormal" when its not, its just a trait that is useful.

in some instances.

Diabetes Mellitus is a trait that is useful

It's real enough to shove pills down the throats of kids for.

It's still a disease

Same with sickle cell anemia. Very useful trait to have...if you get malaria.

Diabetes is life enhancing if you have long fasts

huh

That's why Somoans have it so much

They selected for it so they could do long stretches without food as they went from island to island

Disease =/= bad

So people who get diabetes they should take long fasts to live longer with the disease or live longer than someone without the disease?

It depends on the circumstances

yeah, as advanced as medical science is, i still think we know jack shit

@Malt_Hitman , actually nowadays they should take insulin

This is the 21st century 😃

"this is a disease"
"why"
"because it is detrimental to your health when you shove 500lbs of food down your throat every day"
"How is that... what?"

That's just a variation on "current year" arguments.

Well we now are seeing male hemophiliacs have progeny for the first time in Earth history. Why? Because modern medicine!

Now *there* is an ethical dilemma for you.

I predict within another 200 years human beings will be entirely birthed with C-sections. Why? Modern Medicine! Women who died in childbirth now have kids and pass genes on that are not conducive to vaginal births.

Cat, do you see modern medicine allowing people with heritable aliments reproduce enough that we may go back to the idea of eugenics in a serious manner?

I'm damn glad of that or I wouldn't have kids and my wife might be dead.

@Malt_Hitman , that's a political and not a medical question

I'm a doctor not a politician, Jim!

:p