The only way that I know of explaining dysphoria is to relate it to being somewhat like depression, but it is different from that..
There is a similarity in how you treat it though.
Depression is one of those things that you don't understand unless you have gone through a clinical depression, not just having a depressing time for a reason.
Dysphoria can be very similar in that same way. There is a level that you logically can't deal with it, it effects your thinking, your quality of life.
For depression there are a number of anti-depressants and it sometimes takes a while to find the one that works.
There are many people who, over time, beat the clinical depression and continue on, having a quality life.
The same could be said for dysphoria.
If anyone doubts that it is different for each person, then you really don't have a handle on it, just like a lot of people don't have about depression.
I've even heard the same 'get over it' kinds of advice, which isn't advice at all, but a slap in the face to the person experiencing it.
There are to many variables, and it is a condition of the mind. In severe cases it could be viewed as a disorder, yet it isn't classified as one.
The same is true of many case of depression, when severe, it is clinical and can become a disorder.
Neither are treated as such, they are treated in the ways that work for each person.
This is the reality of it...
There isn't a single one of you who can say yours or anyone else's dysphoria is the same as everyone elses and therefore you simply take this med once or twice a day and that's all there is to it.
It's a different regime for each person and the more we understand it, the more different ways we find to combat it.
Here is the truth of both depression and dysphoria:
They both can easily lead to suicide if untreated, and still can while being treated.
To say it is just a thing to get over is ignorant of it's variable effects that it has.
The treatments can be similar, but finding the right dose of what works is going to be different for each individual.
In both cases, dysphoria and/or depression (because they can occur together) the options of treatment varies.
To blindly think that taking one med at whatever dose is going to be correct is to not understand just how either or both are being treated.
It isn't respectful to tell someone how to step through life when you haven't walked that path yourself, or believe that there is one path and one only.
To argue the point over the way a sentence is structured is kinda lame, when the intent is obvious.
If you can't understand that or wish to pick the wording apart, again, it comes down to a matter of respect.
The only blow-back I see is that lack of respect, something that is strived for in this section, by the Non-binary people here.
Life is different for many, there isn't a single well worn path that we use, there are many.
We understand those well worn paths and use them with respect for the very reasons they are well worn.
It's a matter of respect when it comes to the less traveled paths that non-binaries use.
It would be nice if we had the more traveled paths to walk on as well, but we know this just isn't the truth for us and accept it.
To not accept it as the truth and to deny that that is the truth is very disrespectful of others thoughts and lives as they choose to live them.
There isn't a choice, it is who we are, but we can choose how we deal with that truth.
That is the beauty of the forest, a term brought back to this section.
We celebrate our diversity and learn from it,.. more and more people from younger generations are coming here.
They need up to date and current information, not uninformed opinions from those who haven't walked these paths.
The road less traveled. You don't know what is on those roads unless you have traveled them yourself.
And there are a countless number of them here. A chance to see those things of a beautiful life.
Think about it before you criticize anyone's passing along the information that is our maps, they way we move through life.
The roads less traveled can be many things and we learn a lot about ourselves by discussing this information.
Not by denying that it is another possibility and to be aware of the positives and the negatives of how we move through a different life.
Please don't push your life's experience of a well worn path onto those who take the roads less traveled.
It lacks respect, it shows a limited thinking, something we don't do here, limit our possibilities, there is always a way to move forward.
Think instead of just how hard it can be to move past dysphoria, especially if it's one that you yourself haven't experienced as others have.
Just because something worked for one person, means very little when there are so many ways that it can be dealt with.
And in finding those ways that work, we just might prevent another suicide, something we are all too aware of, that is too high among trans people.
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