Xanax<\/a> and the such.<\/i><\/p>\nOne of the reaons I think this one is getting so much air-time is because I’ve never tried it.
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\nNo one, meaning counselors, have ever suggested that I need any such medication. Let’s see, last count I think I was around 150 hours of therapy sessions and prolly around a dozen various docs checking me out for different things at one time or another … part of the whole evaluatioooon process is to eliminate other possible causes for the feelings of anxiety … depression, muliple personality disorder, bi-polar disorder, blah, blah and blah … no one has even suggested or even hinted I am anything other than an oddly happy, well adjusted, optimistic person … and that my feelings of discomfort, my lifelong feelings of unease … is gender identity dysphoria, a condition characteristic of transsexuals. It’s the correct diagnosis. I know.<\/p>\n
With that being the diagnosis, no one really suggested anything like Xanax or such anti-anxiety meds in an attempt to alleviate the anxiety. And heck, it never crossed my mind.<\/p>\n
So when asked …<\/p>\n
I honestly can’t say I’ve tried it.<\/p>\n
BINGO !<\/p>\n
Now suddenly there’s something to toss out for me to try that I haven’t tried before. Something not as extreme as having a sex change.<\/p>\n
Ugh.<\/i><\/p>\n
Well, my first response is that I’m fairly confident if such was an effective treatment option, I’d have heard of it. Wrong Answer.<\/i> Since I haven’t heard of it, and since it seems to be an obvious solution from others’ viewpoint, I just haven’t done my research as thoroughly as I’d like people to believe<\/u>.<\/p>\n
Ugh.<\/i><\/p>\n
You feel anxiety right? There are anti-anxiety drugs, right? Just take those instead and don’t have a sex change. It’s easy.<\/p>\n
Ugh.<\/i><\/p>\n
I really don’t think that it would be an effective treatment approach. I don’t think the anti-anxiety drugs available are formulated to treat gender identity disorder. They are formulated to treat other specific anxiety-type disorders. If we’re going to just do a blanket hit of medication to suppress the discomfort, it’s easier just to drink the pain away. And ultimately I don’t think that would be any more destructive than using a hodge-podge of prescription drugs. Both I think are dangerous approaches.<\/p>\n
But you don’t know?<\/p>\n
Ugh.<\/i><\/p>\n
No, I don’t. But this is my perspective. If the applicable Standards of Care for this condition, and accepted medical procedures, all said that treatment should be with anti-anxiety drugs, and no one had ever tried a gender transition solution, would you be advocating as passionately to disregard the Standards of Care and accepted medical procedures in favor of trying out a gender transition solution that has never been evaluated? Because that’s what you’re suggesting I do. I’m treating my condition By The Book. Slow, deliberate, cautious. I don’t like the solution anymore than you, but from my slow, deliberate, cautious approach, I get the feeling it’s the right thing for me. Gender transition is the closet thing I’m going to get to a cure. In fact, if it’s successful, it is a cure in my mind. Drugs like you’re suggesting aren’t a cure, it’s an attempt to treat the symptons, but the symptons don’t do away. Just the pain associated with them. And just temporarily. And I’d always know, it’d return.<\/p>\n
Ugh.<\/i><\/p>\n
Interesting how the more people try to talk me out of transition … the more I listen openly to their comments, thoughts, ideas and opinions … the more I become convinced, not only have I done my homework, I’m doing the right thing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
On a side note … I’ve spent time the past few days trying to find discussion of such an approach … and even my reliable, most valuable tool Google<\/a> didn’t find anything of use for evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m not sure how to explain this … but I’ll give it a shot. Most desire for me to stick it out in boy role, do an Option 3. And since some are in the Bargaining stage of acceptance, I’m getting approached with compromises … and one of the ideas being tossed at me right…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":139,"label":"General"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy","author_link":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/author\/amy\/"},"comment_info":15,"category_info":[{"term_id":139,"name":"General","slug":"general","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":143,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":775,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":139,"category_count":775,"category_description":"","cat_name":"General","category_nicename":"general","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}