Gender Dysphoria and Dissociative Identity Disorder

[Shadow]

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[Lyn Aven]

I know the feeling but I can't say I know how the system handles it.

[Ryles]

Do you have a livejournal? There's someone on the multiplicity community who's trans and their doctors know they're multiple/MPD/DID (don't remember which) and I think they're transitioning. There was also a parent on a trans forum who's son is transitioning, and he'll likely be diagnosed with DID. I know another guy with DID, don't know if his therapist knows but he's transitioned fully by now even with at least one female headmate. A lot of multiple systems transition (I won't say most, but a good number), but I dont know how many have their therapist know about it.

It can mess things up with a gender specialist, but it won't necessarily. I think the important thing is to present a unified front.

If there's a chance some of the girls will cause problems with transitioning- definitely see if you can work things out on that front first. I really don't know how your system is set up so I don't know how much that will effect you.

[virginia]

I A friend of mine was diagnosed with DID and had an EXTREMELY hard time being treated for a gender therapist.

[The Nest]

Do you have a livejournal? There's someone on the multiplicity community who's trans and their doctors know they're multiple/MPD/DID (don't remember which) and I think they're transitioning. There was also a parent on a trans forum who's son is transitioning, and he'll likely be diagnosed with DID. I know another guy with DID, don't know if his therapist knows but he's transitioned fully by now even with at least one female headmate. A lot of multiple systems transition (I won't say most, but a good number), but I dont know how many have their therapist know about it.

Yeah, we're hoping to get top surgery someday and HT and we definitely have females in our system but they hardly ever front, and they're all in agreement.

[Ryles]

Yeah, we're hoping to get top surgery someday and HT and we definitely have females in our system but they hardly ever front, and they're all in agreement.

That's awesome.

If that's all fine and your system/anyone in your system doesn't need any help from a therapist that would require coming out, I don't know if I'd tell the therapist or not (unless you know they'll be okay with it). It can definitely be a problem with a lot of therapists who don't accept multiplicity. Unless things get way better by the time y'all are looking into that- definitely be careful.

[The Nest]

I agree with Ryles on this one. We would never tell a T or psychiatrist that we are multiple. The farthest we've gone is a school counselor.

-Kaku

[Ryles]

I agree with Ryles on this one. We would never tell a T or psychiatrist that we are multiple. The farthest we've gone is a school counselor.

-Kaku

I told a college counselor and she was really cool about it. (I had to explain why I didn't understand my own thought patterns. I spent my life thinking completely different people were my thoughts and I can't even tell which ones are mine sometimes! @_@)
I told my gender therapist about it the first go- and I think that's a chunk of why he decided I wasn't going to get T (would've been nice if he'd told me this before my 18th birthday when he'd previously said I'd be able to start. )

I also know a person who has DID, actual DID, and has been mistreated by psychiatric wards because they "don't believe in DID" and hated her for having it- you have to be extremely careful with who you tell about this in the psych community.

[Postmodern Macro]

No on here really MINDS being in a female body. The only one who ever complains about it is actually a girl. Hey. It's not MY fault that YOU were born with tiny little tits. I'm a thick lady with a rack to match, and Sam's this skinny-ass toothpick. Hey. My Tiny Tits make it easier to genderfuck. Anyway, you are the ONLY complainer.

I don't really deal with "dysphoria" so much as "dissonance." I've mentioned it before, but Will's six-five and muscular, and I'm five-three and tiny. So we'll have moments where he's fronting, and the world will be... off. Because he'll be seeing things from a foot up, and I'm seeing things from ground-level, and... ever take your glasses off at a 3D movie? It's kinda like that. A little dizzying. (On the other hand, being tiny, the body has the amazing ability to take up FIVE TIMES the space it should, no matter who's in charge. XD)