I'm reading "genderqueer menopause" by Lasara Firefox Allen at the moment.

It's an interesting book, one take got me thinking. She writes a lot of genderqueer folx who menstruate have dysphoria about that. On the one hand it's really obvious but on the other hand I've never allowed myself to think about menstruation in that way. I've had quite light periods in my youth, but even than they felt like a personal insult. Later I had severe cramps, fatigue and PMDS so no surprise I wasn't happy to have a period. One of the reasons I started HRT was that a third of the twenty six days my cycles were long by then (another thing nobody had told me, the menstrual cycle gets shorter the older you get) I spent in pain or in the conviction I was a generally bad person who was worth nothing.

But even then it never crossed my mind dysphoria might be involved.

#menopause #dysphoria #nonbinary

What are your fav at least slightly healthier dissociation tricks / hobbies / activities for when you can’t even with gender things (but there’s no way out of the current situ)?

ETA: no food/drugs/alcohol/exercise due to illness shit

#dysphoria

It's The End Of The Line

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/its-the-end-of-the-line-justin-farrimond.html

The day will come when we'll all reach the end of the line.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #BlackAndWhite #Death #Monochrome #Dysphoria

In other words, the #TrumpRegime won’t just medically and socially detransition trans people en masse; it will actively try to «cure» them of their gender #dysphoria. And if this is beginning to sound like #conversion #therapy, that’s because it is.

The #führerDonaldTrump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on #TransPeople in Prisons
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https://transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-is-testing

A quotation from Horace

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #dissatisfaction #dysphoria #enjoyment #fear #greed #joylessness #loss #money #perspective #pleasure #property #unease #unhappiness #wealth

I used to think I was introverted, but it turns out that was dysphoria. I felt like socializing was performing as a character, and it was exhausting.

When I’m presenting as myself, I crave social interaction. My social battery is so much bigger.

On my dysphoric days, that feeling comes back. I want to be alone, and I don’t want to be seen. It’s because I don’t want to be seen as that character anymore more. I’m done.

#Dysphoria #Introvert #Trans

I have come to the conclusion that I need my vaginoplasty to be able to move on with my life. That I need to fix my body so that I can fix my mind. The constant pain and thought Invades my mind like nothing else, and is preventing me from making progress.

Now the challenge is going to convince those that are gatekeepers that this is the right course of actions. Because they will tend to say the other way around, that I need to fix my mind because before I can fix my body. But I've tried. And it always comes back to this.

#trans #transfem #transwoman #bottomsurgery #dysphoria #vaginoplasty #mentalhealth

I am experiencing dysphoria, and I am sure that making big decisions based on my distorted dysphoric thoughts isn't the best at the moment.

#MentalHealth #Dysphoria #SelfCare #MentalHealthMatters #Wellbeing #EmotionalHealth #TakeYourTime #Pause #SelfCompassion #MentalHealthAwareness #HealingJourney