About my posts in (health) about borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety and being trans.  This is kinda a follow up to it, but more on the therapy side.
   So today I spoke to my family Dr about my depression and anxiety, and how I was trying to seek help.  We chatted a bit talked about how my parents never really supports anything I do that may cause me to have depression, but family aside I also mention how I always about little things and how it affects my mood. But this post is not about that.  The Dr was more curious about my transition.  He said yeah well being on hormones will affect your mood, and I told him..this mood shift I had even before HRT.  Then he asked if I ever spoke to my parents about my transition.  So in my head I was like what ?? What does depression have to do with me being trans?  The he asked ,"do you think your parents know, and maybe they do" I said well I don't think so.  So then I was like what are you hinting at in my head.  then he asked when I started the thought of being trans, and my anger issues etc.
  So he wrote in his notepad to refer me to a psychiatrist about my depression, and anxiety, then in the end he wrote i'm also going to write that you are on hrt and gender identity.
  But besides from that.....I guess I can say I made a huge step in my life, at least that's how I feel.  In other news ever since I started hrt then the DR retired.  I have been on the same dosage for 5 months now, seeing a new endocrinologist on Feb 23 so I am very excited. 
I guess my question is can a psychiatrist also be a therapist..Because that is a lot of stuff that my psychiatrist will have to deal with. I'm sure he knows what to do.

If the psychiatrist has the proper training, there should be no problem dealing with transgender issues. That will be a question you will want to ask your psychiatrist early on so you will know if you need another therapist or so the psychiatrist will have full knowledge of all the conditions you are dealing with.

A fair number of people on the site have been in therapy for years and neglected to tell their therapist that they were transgender. As the result they weren't able to make much progress because the real problem wasn't being addressed.

Quote from: Mikka55 on February 08, 2017, 04:54:39 PM
... So in my head I was like what ?? What does depression have to do with me being trans? ...

  So he wrote in his notepad to refer me to a psychiatrist about my depression, and anxiety,

When I first started therapy for help in taking on the Trans-Beast, for real, I was worried about how the sessions were going to be coded due to my job. My therapist at that time said "Depression. I haven't had a trans client that wasn't also depressed". Several years later, a move back into the NYC area, I began seeing a different therapist, a gender therapist. Since I was worried about insurance helping to pay for things I asked her how the visits were coded. She said "Anxiety. I haven't had....."

HRT has helped a lot for both. But is no panacea for all of life