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Writing it out can hurt bad sometimes

Started by Larisa, July 25, 2015, 06:18:18 PM

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Larisa

Sometimes even writing my thoughts can just upset me. I write them in a notebook. Yesterday was an example of gone bad. I had nothing do when working so I just wrote and while writing about me being a girl and all, I kept getting more angry and sad. I finally put the pen down and closed my book. I write as therapy and always have on other things to.

It's something very painful for me that no one knows about. It angers me how I have to live with this boy thing while Im NOT a boy. I dont usually care about this stupid chromosome talk but I do say it was a birth defect to me. It's the cause of much of my problems. Not that it's what I consider to define a girl or boy but it's the dna that did give me a boy body. So than people look at me oh looks like a boy so he must be a boy. It goes ofcourse much deeper than this.

Ive been called sir, handsome, man and such boy terms yet I dont know what it's like basically to think or feel like a boy. I dont feel like a man or sir. People assume otherwise. Dress like a guy, guy haircut and other things. I get tired of holding it in but ya It also hurts when thinking or writing about it. I sometimes try to avoid it and it works but truth is, it never goes away. You might not think about it but it comes back. Im a girl and that doesnt go away anymore than Im human would go away. It's who I am. The T-Hormone even messes things up worse.

Again it's way deeper ofcourse but it sucks. Even writing this is painful for me.
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Rachel

When I was hurting very bad 3 years ago I wrote down my experiences and feelings throughout my life. I wrote of the physical and sexual traumas, how I felt had how it altered how I interact with others. I wrote down perhaps 5 pages before I could not write anymore. There was so much pain. That writing set into motion what eventually lead to a breakdown, gender therapy and transition.

Writing down how you feel, what you have done and how it has effected you can be very painful. It also an help you to finally do what you need to do to make things better.

I know the pain,

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saraht123

I still present as male in quite a few situations. I dislike being called Mr or Sir, but it really gets to me when it's people who know me quite well and have no reason to call me Sir/Mr when they could easily call me by name. It's almost like a personal insult and I have to bite my tongue sometimes and tell myself people are not actually trying to annoy me (I hope!).  I think I have moved beyond sadness and hurt and more towards feeling extremely cross :-\  That might not be a good thing.

We already know what our correct pronouns are. I think our battle is getting others to recognise the same.
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Ms Grace

Definitely been there and done that. Writing can help but beware of putting yourself into a negative feedback loop. At that point writing isn't going to help much, but it will most likely make you feel worse. Try to see your writing a s a record for your journey and a focus for your hope and goals, don't use it as a distorted mirror of what you don't have in your life. :)
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JoanneB

Perhaps because of my severe stuttering as a child I basically trained myself to do a lot of thinking/practicing in my head to get out what needed to get out as quickly and as simply as I could. This practice got carried over into my journalling, starting with the raw basic primal scream opening sentence. The problem solver fixer part of me then asks the How did we get there and How can I fix this. Seeing the "Problem Statement" on paper helps in detaching me emotionally from the solutions.

This helps a lot in avoiding that depression death spiral you can get into by keeping it negative. You get the ability to scream and vent on paper. You get to mull over solutions. You get to see in a near and far distant future how you felt and how you felt about what you can do about it rather than being a victim.

My wife loves to say that there are always at least five solutions to every problem.  I'm almost always good for a Plan A & a Plan B. Sometimes even a Plan C. She is lot more able to think outside the box towards solutions I instantly dismiss as being total fantasy. Well, my life now was a total fantasy years ago. A plan I totally dismissed as out of hand decades ago.
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MugwortPsychonaut

Quote from: Larisa1983 on July 25, 2015, 06:18:18 PM
Ive been called sir, handsome, man and such boy terms yet I dont know what it's like basically to think or feel like a boy.

If somebody is calling you handsome, it means you're good-looking. So as you transition, and the longer you're on estrogen, this can only help you. :)
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doctorinkwell

Yeah, writing it out can help put a lot of thoughts in line. I know it's helped me, but I certainly have had a lot of times where writing it out just stirs up a lot more emotions than I can deal with.

I guess I just try to look at it as a way to realize that all of this is real. It's not something that we're making up, and all of these feelings are true. Furthermore, I want to keep these moments to look back on when I'm doing better in the future, whenever that may be, so that I can see what progress I've made.

Just gotta take one step at a time, even when it feels like our legs are broken.

:) - Sunny

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