So what remains to be rationalized is if you maintain that it's a paranoid disorder still, explain why.
So to give you a little catalyst framework for which to rationalize your position. Paranoia in the simplest terms is characterized by a delusion of persecution, unwarranted jealousy or exaggerated self-importance.
Thank you for your response thank you for the amount of time you put into it. I appreciate it and I wish to continue this discussion
You're welcome. I find the issue very interesting
To begin with, I do know what Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) is; it is classified as an Axis II mental disorder in the current DSM V, and I have just googled the DSM V diagnostic criteria fpr PPD to refresh my memory. I do not recall associating PPD with homosexuality in my post (above), though there are , no doubt, some homosexuals who are clinically paranoid. (we all are in certain situations!!) Generally speaking, however, clinical paranoid symptoms are not hallmark psychiatric features of homosexuality. Which brings me a point I wanted to make clear...
In medical psychiatry conditions like ADHD, Schizophrenia, Autism, Bipolar, etc; are termed mental DISORDERS, not mental illnesses. Strictly speaking the term "disorder" is not synonymous with "illness." An illness is a medical condition like malaria or lung cancer or cirrhosis of the liver.
In 2000, the American Medical Association (AMA) published three mainstream scientific studies into homosexual psychopathology ("psychopathology" is the field of psychiatry/neurology/psychology that deals with abnormal mental functioning that causes problems/ harms/distress for a person). These three studies converged on the conclusion that homosexual people are at SUBSTANTIALLY higher risk for some forms of emotional problems, including: suicidality, Major Depressive Disorder and anxiety disorder.
In medicine, the term "disorder" has proven difficult to define. In the DSM-IV and the current DSM -V the definition of a mental disorder was largely based on a concept of disorder developed by an American guy called Jerome Wakefield in the late early 1992. Naturally, it is extremely important how the term "mental disorder" is officially defined in a national diagnostic manual like the DSM. Wakefield's notion of a mental disorder is what he calls a "harmful dysfunction", wherein "harmful" is a value term based on social norms, and "dysfunction" is a scientific term referring to the failure of a mental mechanism to perform a natural function for which it was designed by EVOLUTION (the process of natural selection).
Following Wakefield's theory, human evolution has worked in the majority of cases to assure heterosexuality and thus homosexuality may well represent a dysfunctional developmental error; that is, a failure of one or more mental mechanism/s to perform the natural function for which they were designed by evolution. Most mainstream scientists who have investigated the causes of homosexuality believe that it is a congenital condition; i.e; people are "born gay" and not responsible for their sexual orientation. By the mid-2000s there was an increasing recognition among the mainstream scientific community in the West that abnormal genetic, hormonal, neurological and immune system mechanisms were likely involved in causing homosexuality. Like everything in the brain these mechanisms are complex and interact with one another, so progress in identifying them all and understanding the details of exactly where and why they are dysfunctional will doubtless be slow. The point is, however, that in the opinion of scientists involved in this research there IS "DYFUNCTION" in the sense Wakefield defined it. To put it bluntly , homosexuality very likely derives from a F**K UP in some neurobiological hormonal (probably androgenic, testosterone) or genetic, etc; mechanism that is not abnormal; i.e; not designed according to natural evolution.
So if we use the (dominant) DSM -V definition of a mental disorder, - which is still largely based on Jerome Wakefied's conceptualization of a mental disorder as a "
Harmful Dysfunction" -, in the case of homosexuality, it seems that we have both halves of the equation: (1) the "scientific" half (in dysfunctional neurobiological mechanism that have failed to function as natural evolution intended) and (2) the "value" half, in the research I mentioned above that shows homosexuals are at substantially higher risk for harmful emotional disorders like : suicidality; Major Depressive Disorder and Anxiety Disorders, among others.
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