Perverse Incentives For Identifying As a Disorder

Perverse incentives make it more difficult to want to heal

This quote below describes the act of identifying as a disease (or disorder) and then having an identity crisis when it's gone.

"The problem with gender dysphoria, and other mental illness as identity, is that there is no incentive to transcend toward health. To do so, is to lose one’s privileged place in the modern hierarchy."

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The problem with identifying with a "disease" or "disorder" is that you end up in a position where you don't desire healing any longer.

And that problem with identifying as a "disease" or "disorder" probably goes back to the creation of the DSM (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). When your emotional/mental state became a diagnosis, you start to think you're stuck with it forever. Then you start to identify AS it.

Identifying As a Disorder

When you identify AS a "disorder" you are letting go of your responsibility to take steps to turn towards mental health. You don't think there's anything you can do to change it and start to take on the "victim" role in the drama triangle. You're a "victim" to a disorder now and people start to "care" for you (they take on the savior role).

There are a lot of activists infiltrating the psychological field and making it impossible for some people to reach healed states while seeing them. If you see yourself as a savior and others as perpetual victims, you will never be able to help them see how they can exit the drama triangle and find their power.

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Once you get into that drama-triangle dynamic there's a perverse incentive structure that makes it so you don't want to actually get healing. If you do, you have an identity crisis, and many of the friends, peers, or "help" you've gathered since identifying as this disorder may turn on you. The reason for that is that they wanted to feel like the "savior" or "rescuer" and you actually getting help on your own and being healed means that they can't have that role any longer.

So, if you won't play the "victim" for them, they'll turn you into the "persecutor." Getting out of identifying as something (an identity crisis) is difficult, but you can and will find new peers who encourage you, once you stand your ground and lose the drama folks.