What happened since then? I feel a very positive tone from this statement, it’s the opposite of how EP comes across nowadays.
yeah exactly, it seems like EP has been really affected by comments like that frm the media and it has affected her mental health very severely
I found an article a while back now on this. It was from the 2000s and was looking at how people with this disorder were connecting with each other on the internet. I found the language these people used very similar to how trans people describe their feelings. So they would say things like 'my left leg isn't really mine, I'm not supposed to have it' etc. I watched a Monroe Bergdorf documentary where they were getting brow surgery and they talked about how 'this isn't really my brow'.There is a condition called Body Integrity Disorder (sometimes called transabled) where sufferers feel dysphoria related to parts of their bodies. Sometimes they end up amputating their own hands/legs to make the dysphoria stop or, in the case of the woman below, make themselves blind on purpose. Luckily doctors aren't going around amputating legs left, right and centre though.
Body integrity dysphoria - Wikipedia
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I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist but...
this is all escalating so quicky in this past year 
. People are turning backs on reason, medical ethics and fairness.Needless to say, the young person who had her breasts and nipples removed has a long history of mental health problems. Their bio says “autistic, queer, trans, non-binary, personality disorder”
I think EP’s outward appearance is a good indication of their inner turmoil. I can’t see things ending well. I hope they quietly withdraw from acting, because I can’t see a successful career continuing beyond this point.
Similarly (and a bit weirdly
) I was on a forum a few months ago and someone made friends with me because I mentioned my disability... it quickly became obvious that they had a fetish for disabled people, but not just in the sense of wanting to date a disabled person - wanting to make themselves disabled, finding the idea of it sexually attractive. In this case, this person also had BIID and didn’t ‘relate’ (their words) to certain bits of their body so took pleasure in ‘disabling’ them because, ‘well, what use did they have for them otherwise’ (their words). As I looked through their posts it actually painted a very saddening, if creepy, picture because they had gone from being perfectly able bodied and just fantasising to then becoming disabled to the point of being reliant on others, and slipping Into severe depression as the reality was obviously so far fetched from their original fantasy. It was bloody weird but I can see parallels between this and the transgender debacle 100%I wondered this about the woman someone posted a video of who made herself blind, it must be really difficult for all the people around her, obviously you never know what could happen to anyone, someone could easily have an accident and become reliant on those around them, but it would grate a bit if you knew they had done it on purposeSimilarly (and a bit weirdly
Exactly. This also has parallels with people who on Twitter we would term as "transwidows" who suddenly have to deal with a sexual and romantic partner who now insists of presenting as a stereotype of the other sex, and find themselves between a rock and a hard place because they have to suddenly 1) be "supportive" 2) can't be seen to be upset 3) pretend to be okay with suddenly having a partner taking hormones or having parts lopped off or grafted on 4) if they say they want to leave then they get called hateful and a transphobe 5) some get conditioned into staying 6) their private life becomes everyones business, imagine the gossip! I love my husband but if he turned around to me and said he was a TW and expected me to put on a performance of suddenly being a 'lesbian' couple I wouldn't be able to cope! It's cruel to expect someone to suddenly change their sexuality, rights to be upset, because their partner has made a transformation. I hope E Page's ex doesn't receive hate for leaving, even if she was outwardly supportive in the press.
A good example of this in another area to me is mental health. So many people make it out to be "trendy" to have "anxiety and depression", make mocking tiktok's out of it etc and use it as buzzwords. But if they had even half of a clue what is actually like to live with debilitating mental illness, they wouldn't be making light of it at all. People have such a thing now with glorifying horrible conditions that people struggle all their lives to get any meaningful support or treatment for and I can't fathom why. Why does *anyone* want to be mentally or physically ill?
I honestly think it must be some kind of narcissistic disorder. Just for attention. But a kind of pathological need for attention that needs treating in its own right.
yeah exactly, in terms of the "transwidow" thing it is interesting to compare it to people whose partners come out as gay and how different people's reactions are, no one (mostly anyway) expects their partner to be thrilled about basically being lied to for years, nor do they expect the gay/lesbian partner to stay with someone they are not attracted to, why should it be different if someone changes sex?
I wonder if there is a correlation between lack of MH services or people who have had negative mental health services and this being the surgery they go for.
That would be really interesting to know, I wish the government would put more money into MH services rather than funding for these surgeries
I think there must be, even if your desire to have such surgery is not down to MH (personally I think it will be) surely the trauma that comes with it such decisions will have a negative effect on your MH. If they had MH intervention earlier perhaps they wouldn’t go so far.
