Don’t Let Gender Dysphoria Stop You

How is gender dysphoria recognised? In which cases does it occur? Is it possible to cope? Our article will aim to answer all these questions.

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Gender dysphoria, which can be seen especially in transgender individuals, directly affects the quality of life of people and can disrupt their daily routines and work. This situation causes stress or distress to people and causes them to feel pressure on people. However, there are many methods to cope with these situations. Thanks to these methods, people can take control of their lives and improve their quality of life.

How to Recognise if a Person has Gender Dysphoria?

First of all, gender dysphoria is a condition that has a solution but needs to be approached sensitively. Therefore, it is especially important for transgender people to understand themselves or for the relatives of transgender people to be aware of them. In order to understand this situation, the following symptoms can be decisive:

  1. People may have compelling feelings of distress because of the gender they were born with,
  2. In some cases, psychological symptoms such as eating disorders, social anxiety or depression may occur.
    If you observe such symptoms in yourself or in your environment, you may be experiencing gender dysphoria. Although this condition occurs especially in transgender people, it can occur in anyone who does not feel that they belong to the gender they were born with.

Ways to Cope with Gender Dysphoria

Although this situation may seem like a problem, it is actually the body’s signal to the person that “something is not going right”. Thanks to this signal, the body wants to direct you to the right thing by mobilising you. So your body says “take action”. When you learn how to cope with gender dysphoria, you will take action on your journey of being yourself and life control will pass back to you. Here we go:

  1. Support Your Mental Health with Hobbies: Discover hobbies that interest you, where you can focus and express yourself well. Especially hobbies related to art can be a good option for expressing your emotions.
  2. Make Affirmations: Make affirmations about your gender to reinforce your self-compassion and self-esteem and remember that you love yourself often. Affirmations made just before the start of the day ensure that your whole day will be positive. “My gender identity is valid and I am valid.” “My body does not define my gender or who I really am.” Affirmations such as “I am important and worthy of happiness” will help you.
  3. Give Importance to Your Self-care: Take care of yourself and your body. Take care to live by focusing on the things you love. For example, eat your favourite food, turn on your favourite song or watch your favourite TV show. This way you can feel more energised or energised.
  4. Use Your Senses If You Feel Threatened: Activating the senses as soon as you notice dysphoria in yourself will distract your attention from dysphoria. Sensory activities such as tasting, smelling, touching reduce the level of anxiety by allowing you to divert your attention.
  5. Get Away from Things That Trigger You: Move away from people and situations that do not respect you and trigger you. Thanks to this distance, you will also set your boundaries and control your dysphoria.
  6. Strengthen Your Ties with Your Friends and Family: Share with the people you care about and value to raise awareness about gender dysphoria. Informing them about this issue will help you establish deeper bonds and help them understand you better.
  7. Get Professional Support and Communicate with Communities: Psychological support from a professional will help you get through this process in the easiest way. It is not easy to cope with this situation, but contacting communities that will understand you can reinforce your sense of belonging and make you feel safe.

Overcoming Gender Dysphoria: Consolidate Your Appearance, Try Medical Treatments

Having an appearance appropriate to the gender you identify with will be the best way to express yourself, especially in your social life. If you are a trans woman, having a feminine appearance will make you feel better. In this way, you will notice that the effect of gender dysphoria on you decreases during the day.
In addition, starting the gender harmonisation process with the support of medical treatments is another effective solution that will solve your problem. Since medical treatments will give you the most precise and visible result, they solve most of the negativities caused by gender dysphoria. Medical treatments such as hormone treatments, facial feminisation, gender reassignment surgeries, etc. will be good for you.

Take Control and Act Now

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This journey of change and dysphoria can be extremely difficult to cope with. But it is just as easy to take control. Thanks to the methods mentioned above, you will be yourself by getting rid of the negativity of the process. Applying these methods will make you feel safe in the long run. It is very valuable to love yourself as you are instead of being afraid of change, sabotaging yourself and putting pressure on yourself.
You are extremely valuable as you are beyond your body. When you look at yourself from this point of view, you will see that you are the protagonist of an extremely beautiful and important process.

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