Marchiano believes suicide statistics are often employed by gender therapists in a manner that is both irresponsible and unethical. “It’s essentially emotional blackmail,” she told me. “It’s being used to force parents’ hands to do something that they don’t feel comfortable with.” But there’s something else she’s even more worried about: Insisting that an adolescent who doesn’t transition is likely to kill herself—that notion can also easily fall into the symptom pool, too. It may have already. “When you tell a group of highly suggestible adolescent females that if they don’t get a certain
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What the fuck. Suicde contagions do occur i will admit that but useual after there is an event, such as a student in 1 school killing themselves and then copycat suicides occur.
But what goes on with gd kids who would rather not live because of the distress of the fact their bodies dosen't match what they know themselves to be, is enough of fact, like severe depression that suicide needs to be taken seriously.
Example being, my 1st suicide and almost died. No one knew. Why? Cause i couldn't stand being a freak, which turned out to be gd manifesting. When i have told therapist about thoughts of death, a saftey plan was set up. You know communication much needed to keep safe and dicuss that gd issues were extremely intense that a another day with it was worse outcome than being dead. It wasn't a tactic.
