A lot of us experience dysphoria about a lot of things. Personally, one of my biggest points of dysphoria is my facial/body hair and masculine sounding voice.

We believe this should be a community where all trans people are welcome to give and receive support on their journey.

Feel free to rant about what’s been bothering you and try and comment on someone else’s comment with some encouragement! It can really go a long way to brightening someone’s day!

Love to all my trans brothers, sisters, enbies and all other flavors of people who live as they are ❤️

-Olivia (oNevia)

  • oNeviaOPMEnglish
    6•3 months ago

    I really feel this as I will go through bouts of low motivation and energy that destroy all my self care routines for a bit. It sucks because the less I take care of myself, the harder it is to even try.

    Take it a day at a time sweetie. I recently found out that HRT can and often does make ADHD a lot worse. I know this personally as I’m struggling with increased difficulties concentrating without my medication and I have a FtM friend who wasn’t diagnosed before HRT, but is how because his symptoms got a lot worse as well.

    These feelings won’t last forever and you will find a way out ❤️ hang in there Fey

    • @TranstronautEnglish
      6•3 months ago

      Thanks, that helps. ❤️

      I’ve actually been wondering about that ADHD angle, but I really didn’t want it to be the case. 😬 It would make sense, though.

      I guess there’s not much to do but, as you say, take it a day at a time and try not to beat myself up any more than the dysphoria already is. I’m not too concerned about maintaining any particular pace or “deadline” for transitioning, it’s just frustrating to not be able to chip away at my sources of dysphoria.

      • cowboycrustation [he/him]MEnglish
        6•3 months ago

        Look up “gender dysphoria bible” and go to either the estrogenic or androgenic puberty 101 section. Keep scrolling and you’ll find a part on ADHD.

        As far as I’m aware, there haven’t been any studies around ADHD and trans people. A lot of this is based off what the hormone itself does to dopamine receptors.

        • @TranstronautEnglish
          6•3 months ago

          Ah, yeah - I failed to provide some missing context: having read that early on is what led me to wonder. I think it also said something about ADHD symptoms potentially decreasing as well if you’re lucky, so I’ve been hoping for that outcome. 😅

          • cowboycrustation [he/him]MEnglish
            6•3 months ago

            Ah, gotcha. GDB was the first and only place I’ve come across that info as well.

            Here’s an article that’s the closest I could find to the topic. It’s about ADHD in cis boys vs cis girls. Some of this is very likely gonna be based on socialization, but some of it could also be biochemical. The article mentions that ADHD symptoms will vary based on menstrual cycle, puberty, etc.

            https://psychcentral.com/adhd/adhd-and-gender#diagnosis