Gender Identity Disorder and OCD

[silentone]

My psychologist believes that my OCD issues manifested itself from my anger and frustrations from being trapped in a male body and not expressing my true self. I use to and still have many OCD issues of constantly cleaning, organizing things to be placed in a certain spot, washing hands, etc. I was told that I let go of all my anger in my sleep through yelling, crying, screaming, etc.

Anyone else have OCD? Did it go away eventually after transitioning? On hrt my anger seems to go away, but I still have OCD issues.

[Natkat]

I did had OCD for a time of my life, and I might still have few sigs of it with certan things but nothing compared to how I got it.
I do belive I got OCD for being trans, Not just for being trapped in the wrong body but generally for not getting any help and having this inner frustration and stress.

I got over my OCD on a vacation where I got to relax and just focusing on holding back. I never resieved threatment for my OCD so it have all been 100% myself who cured myself. I belive if your willing to fight agenst yourself then thats it, I took small steps each day focusing on 1 thing ex, I had OCD about sitting on a wrong seat in the buss, so I started out to sit at 1 seat and force myself not to shift.

I cant say if transition will help on OCD, what I can say is I had alot of problems I know was related to the gender issue and the problems I had being transgender and they went away as my life got less stressfull. I heard people as well said so about depression and other stuff..
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it can also be its not related to being tans its imposible to say.

[A]

Mental issues bring others. I have many minor issues in my life, including an obsessive-type personality disorder, which is basically a non-specific, mild form of OCD, and I believe all of them have been caused or nurtured by my being trans and the issues that come from that.

Once, when my depression and gender dysphoria hit a very bad point, I could not bear thinking of myself the way I was and how others viewed me, so much that I developed some sort of OCD-ish symptom. I was obsessively mixing around letters in all sorts of words and pronouncing (in my head) the result. It was so bad it made me withdraw from school. It progressively went away as I didn't have to deal with as many people as male anymore.

Though just to complain, having had that was really bad, because while it's nowhere near as bad, I still annoy myself by doing that, the letter mixing, once in a while. My brain didn't forget. :/

[Natkat]

Mental issues bring others.

yeah a guy once said: "transgenders are not mental ill, but you can become mental ill by being trans"*

this should be understood in the connection that where I live you are mental ill if your are transexual and you also got threated pretty badly so many transfolks get alot of mental problems for the stress they have to go thou.

[Brooke777]

When I was in a wheelchair, I had OCD. I was told it was a way to gain some sort of control over my world. It went away shortly after I was able to walk again, so I only had it for a few years.