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::: Open Letter :::

June 2008: an Open Letter

Deareth Kenneth Zucker,

I have no doubt in my feminine mind that you have been placed in your High Position for such a time as this. Your ever growing influence with the great organization of the APA is the hand of Providence.

I am just a woman who once chose the bisexual lifestyle as a form of [what I thought would be] freedom. My short-lived GID was an ersatz identity that was rooted in Insecurity, Fear, Pain, and Avoidance.

For me, the GID lifestyle was linked to addiction. Substance abuse was my method for coping with the insanity that is the inevitable result of GID:

Drinks before, and a smoke after--was the only way I was able to maintain my false image that I kept for as long as I could [even though it was a lie] just so I could receive kudos, affirmation and celebration from the LGBT.

I had grown to love the rewards that come with being aligned with the LGBT and such rewards stole my good judgment and my good health [for a terrible season].

Thankfully, seasons come: but they also pass. The lesson that I learned from my season in the LGBT was that No Social Perk is worth more to me than my Precious Peace of Mind and my Secure Gender Identity.

Without substance abuse as a coping mechanism, homosexuality felt utterly abnormal. What I thought was freedom--was illness. Thankfully, I escaped the lifestyle and I healed from the roots of GID disorder, and my hetero-identity is More than fully restored.

If you Google 'nymphomania' along with 'APA' my name will come up, perhaps just a bit above your good name--which I last came across in an Open Letter to the American Psychiatric Association, penned by one of your opponents.

It seems as though the Mind of the APA is highly desired by a variety of well-meaning individuals, BUT Anne Mercedes Allen and her threats of POTENTIAL EMBARRASSMENT directed towards the APA will not, in my opinion, intimidate the APA in any way because the 'Mind' of the APA is Just, Ethical, and not so easily manipulated.

It is my full intention to see female-sex-addiction [Nymphomania], under the control of the APA. I know that you are connected with NARTH, and I hope that you see the wisdom in keeping Faith in the APA which has not gone to Hades [though some may think so].

My message being, the blame is not to be put on the APA, though the Good members of the board have perhaps desired to treat GID and Nymphomania, the harassment they might receive from sociologically and politically driven people who will promote their agendas even at the expense of health--are the real antagonists.

In Light of Health

Written by: ~ Rachel Eagle Reiter