• Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Tacking gender dysphoria is part of taking care one’s health and trans adults can make informed consent about their lives.

    Therapists are not needed in most cases.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      … most psychs I’ve met are reluctant to prescribe antidepressants even to folk with a medically verifiable history of suicide without simultaneous therapy.

      Tackling depression is taking care of one’s health, and depressed adults can make informed consent about their lives, but that doesn’t automatically mean medical professionals, especially psychs, are ready to write out a script on patient request.

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Antidepressants also have about a 40% success rate in improving the quality of life of a patient and come with a laundry list of potential side effects - including suicidal ideation. HRT sits at over 90% and has comparably few side effects outside the actual physical effects hormones cause. The DSM-V recommended treatment for gender dysphoria is HRT, and therapy to treat other symptoms that can occur alongside gender dysphoria.

      • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Anti-depressants aren’t the same thing as hormones. As HRT is much safer especially when using the patches.

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Anti-depressants aren’t the same thing as hormones. As HRT is much safer especially when using the patches.

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