I've been told a number of times to "get help". A couple of things.
1. I don't need help. Help is required when you are in distress and want something sorted.
2. Even if I should get "help", there is no help available to me. What people don't seem to understand is that there is no cure. A psychiatrist could not change me any more than they can genuinely make a homosexual straight. There is no medication, save for killing off my sex drive (which certainly would not be help). Indeed, the psychiatric definition (not the actual definition) only applies when it causes distress, or when someone is thinking or is actually acting on it. Because all a psychiatrist can treat is symptoms arising from it, depression etc. And since I can accept what I am, and I have no ill health due to it, they would be able to do anything anyway.
So "getting help" is not necessary, nor is it an option for me. Of course, anyone who feels distressed by it should get the help they need to feel better about themselves.
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