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Transgender or OCD?

Started by DesperateBoy, March 09, 2016, 04:13:25 PM

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DesperateBoy

Hello everyone.
Since January 25 I have been plagued by intrusive thoughts of being trans.
These thoughts began when I was having trouble sleeping and started having some delusions of someone telling me that I was a woman (this one was a false account of a radfem lesbian I created on Facebook,I created this account because I admired radfem women and I wanted to be among them and learn about their movement without being hostilized for being a man).
Since that day many images of me wearing women's clothes and being treated by female pronouns have plagued me.I've always been totally ok with my gender,I always behaved as a cisgender boy and later as teenage cisgender boy,I once wore women's clothing when I was a kid but it was because my female friend made to and not because I wanted to and it was so meaningless to me that I had even forgotten that.
Before January 25 I was in the process of accepting myself as a gay guy and was beginning to accept myself as a boy who likes boys(although my mother told me I was too masculine to be gay)
I'm 100% okay with my body and I do not want to modify it,but when I say this,intrusive thoughts come and tell me otherwise and this goes against what I feel,I see myself as a man when these thoughts are out of me(these thoughts were out of me for a long time since January 25 but they returned recently),I am also totally ok with being recognized as a man and be treated as one.
I tried to wear some clothes from my mother but I felt uncomfortable with it,I only tried these clothes because those intrusive thoughts told me to do that.
Anyway,all these thoughts intrusive thoughts make anxious,desperate,fearful,insecure and extremely uncomfortable and they come all the time.
I really need help, any advice is welcome.
*I am 17 years old
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Matthew

Welcome to Susan's Place! Whether you are trans, cis or anything inbetween you are welcome here.

I don't think that anyone can tell you for definite whether you are trans or not, and when I was first coming to that realisation that's all I wanted, but what you need to do is to figure things out slowly for yourself.

There are some things that therapists look for when diagnosing gender identity disorder with young people, the main 3 things being:

Consistence
Insistance
Persistance


They also look at things like your discomfort with your body, the way you are seen socially and parts of your childhood.

Right now things will be confusing, so it's ok to not know or understand, just try not to let this stress you out.


Here are some links for you to look at on the site to get started, if you need anything feel free to PM me (once you have reached 15 posts) or create another forum post.

Welcome to the site!


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