Analysing Historical Mass Psychogenic Epidemics & Gender Dysphoria

Interesting - I will take a look.

I’m old enough to remember a dysphoria around multiple personalities being in the news and apparently being taken very seriously by the mainstream media at the time.

I also remember being very bored as an intelligent, probably under-stimulated, middle class teenager between the ages of about thirteen and sixteen - reading endless classic novels about life, love and death while waiting for something, anything, to happen in order to start the serious business of my own life! Of course I now know that is a hugely privileged position and no one actually wants big life events to happen to them as a teenager. I probably could have done with taking a GCSE early or something! But I remember that feeling and wonder what would have happened if a big social contagion had come along while I was in that mindset?

It's clear society has often gone through these phases; what's new is the impact of social media. And we simply don't know what that will be like for future generations.

This needs to be more widely understood and addressed in psychiatry . It will happen again

I think this whole subject is extremely pertinent, thanks for the heads up. Will
Listen when I can.

Am I on my own in disliking listening to podcasts? I don't enjoy eavesdropping on chummy ramblings
No @Gagagardener you are not alone! I'll listen to this, but I'd much rather read it!

Tell you what, she is one brave young woman.

@Gagagardener - if I ever have to do a presentation I am going to beg you to listen to me before it. What feedback!

I found it fascinating! Thanks for posting, Utopia.

What she describes is exactly what I have come to believe about the wave of transitioned youngsters.

It’s so obvious when you start to look at the phenomenon that the whole idea of “gender identity” has no scientific basis whatsoever. So when it’s a crucial concept as a basis for a diagnosis, then you have built everything on a fault line which will eventually collapse.

I can’t see any other way for the whole experiment to end, other than with a spectacular collapse under the weight of negligence cases, which is going to be awful. We will be left with a generation of children who have either been subject to this experiment themselves, or have watched their friends go through it. All the social complications we see now with who belongs in which space will continue to be a problem for their lifetime.

So… good talk, horrors on the way, if correct, which I fear she is.

You can see a transcript on YouTube which is just conversion of the video to text.

I have done Mia Hughes an injustice. This is an aplogy. Her talk IS scripted.

Mia has a light, pleasant speaking voice, but scarcely sounds as though she believes in her right to use it. If I were her mentor, I would advise her to avoid ending statements with a rising inflection - or beginning them with the phatic 'so'. Both undermine the authority of her important message.

(I wrote my first post after dipping into comments towards the end from those attending the seminar, and it was the delivery of these that set my teeth on edge.)

Edited for clarity.

I am interested in the subject. But is there an edited takeaway transcript/summary? I found this too irritating to persist with: vocal creaks; 'okay, errr...' rambling syntax... grrr!

Am I on my own in disliking listening to podcasts? I don't enjoy eavesdropping on chummy ramblings. Or, in this case, a recorded live unscripted seminar.