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James Esses – On Gender Ideology in Psychology, Pathologizing the Normal, and Why the Anglosphere Has Gone So Woke

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Are We Pathologizing Human Suffering?

i wonder if, aside from some of the more obvious cases mental illness, am we pathologizing human suffering? Rigtlake: I think these sort of natural reactions to being human often get categorized into something that's pathological rather than something that's normal. And i worry that we have medicalized asking those questions and searching for answers in a way that is ultimately unhelpful. We don't think children should be able to deal with forms of distress or happiness at all times,. he says.

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