The shocking true story of why top psychiatric organizations de-pathologized a severe and uniquely self-destructive mental illness
“When I looked in the mirror, I just saw disgusting fat.”
Those words, spoken by dangerously skinny teenager Emma Stewart, are typical of girls suffering from anorexia nervosa.
“I was convinced I needed to be skinny to look good in a bikini,” Emma told the UK’s Daily Mirror. “I started obsessing about my weight and what I’d look like sunbathing. I was convinced I was too heavy, so I started skipping meals and making myself sick.”
Emma, literally wasting away, as shocking photos document, resembled an emaciated concentration-camp survivor. Yet, the effect her anorexia had on her mind and emotions was to make her see herself as disgustingly fat.
Hold that thought. Now look into the mirror of people suffering from another condition, one wildly fawned over by today’s Democratic Party, popular culture, news and entertainment media, and even corporate PR departments, all hailing it as the latest civil rights movement – namely, being “transgender.”
“When I look in the mirror in the morning, before having shaved, it’s certainly a painful experience. The immediate reaction I get from my reflection is a feeling of very strong dissociation, accompanied by a kind of shock, confusion, or mental jarring. I have the strong, gut-level sensation that whoever is behind the mirror is not me,” says one “trans” individual.
Strange that there hasn’t been a major motion picture about transitioning regrets.
Nothing strange about that 7:04, there never will be a “motion picture” putting transgenders in negative light.