Have I ever had mental illness, I was once diagnosed as homosexual?!


Question: Have I ever had mental illness, I was once diagnosed as homosexual!?
How do I truthfully answer the question "Have you ever had a mental illness!?" in that I was diagnosed with Homosexual pathology in the days that it was considered a mental illness!. Nowadays of course the consensus realizes that it is society that is ill, not queer folk!.

But does that mean that I never was mentally ill for reason that the book of diagnoses was in error and there is no such illness!?

I suppose if a person was diagnosed HIV and later it turned out that the test used bad chemicals and gave the wrong result and they were never actually infected you would say they never had HIV, even though they were once diagnosed with it!. Is this the same thing!?

Will it be the same thing when they put "Autogynephilia" (which is virtually the same thing as femmy homosexuality in the next DSM)!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
If you were able to function successfully in society and did not have strong desires to hurt yourself or others, then you were never mentally ill!. The diagnosis may have been accurate, but the classification of the diagnosis as a pathology was wrong, so you never had a mental illness!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

You would be classified as having no mental illness unless you had symptoms that are recognized as a mental illness!. If the records are that old, it's very possible that no one will be able to find them anyway!.

"Autogynephilia" is not the same thing as homosexuality!. It's when a man is sexually aroused by seeing himself as a woman!. It's already in the DSM-IV but it's called "Transvestic Fetishism!." Someone who has this can be either homosexual or hetereosexual according to the DSM-IV!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I think the question implies a mental illness by today's standard!. I would answer no!. If later questioned about it, I think you would have a reasonable argument for your answer!. If they denied you employment, or whatever the test is for, I think you would have a n issue you could sue on!.

But, I could be wrong!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Homosexuality is a perfectly normal orientation, NOT a mental disorder!. It doesn't impair your functioning, doesn't cause distress and homosexuals are almost always proud of their sexuality, because they have triumphed over centuries of social and religious persecution, all because they weren't how other people, most of them complete strangers, wanted them to be!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

true, currently no longer considered mental illness because our standards have changed!. Back then we did not know any better!. Mental illness diagnoses is not a purely objective science, it is based on what society deems is "normal" and is quite subjective!. You are not mentally ill!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

If you are GAY,then you are mentally ILL!!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com

i don't think your mentally ill at all just that the doctors were weirdWww@Answer-Health@Com





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