As the title says, do you have any tips and tricks that you think are good for dealing with sudden outbursts of Dysphoria, so you dont feel like shit until you fall asleep (at least that’s when the Dysphoria ends for me usually).
As the title says, do you have any tips and tricks that you think are good for dealing with sudden outbursts of Dysphoria, so you dont feel like shit until you fall asleep (at least that’s when the Dysphoria ends for me usually).
Premium comment, and yes to much of this to some variety.
Go out there and become yourself. Being the new you and taking care of that new human, whether better self care or different self care, is a learning curve but the best way to go forward.
premium, huh? Should I start a Patreon? 😝
Thank you for your compliments ❤️
And I think “go out there and become yourself” is a good summary, though I remember being very early in transition and feeling entirely clueless about what it meant to “be myself” - this phrase and language came up a lot, esp. from supportive cis allies. Everyone thought it was so great I was “being myself”, but I never felt my transition was ever about being myself, really (or what that meant, even).
After decades of repression I was so dissociated and disconnected from myself, my desires, etc. Eventually I realized on a cognitive level that when I did things to facilitate feeling like a woman, I seemed to feel good or at least less bad (and feeling masculine made me feel worse). From there I eventually came around to “go out there and be a woman” - and that ended up working for me pretty well. I don’t know who I am, but I know being a woman in the world consistently makes me feel good.
All this to say, sometimes the trans experience can be fractured and difficult to piece together or interpret, and I try to be sensitive to that, since it is my own experience as a trans person. This makes it hard to summarize or communicate effectively for every kind of trans experience out there.
Some people have a good sense of self, some don’t.