In Australia we see a psychiatrist who specialises in SRS.
They are tough but good. I like mine. He is psyche to most of the community in SA and therefore has a very balanced view. He then refers to an endocrinologist for the HRT, and also insists on bone scans to monitor calcium depletion. He calls you in if you haven't seen him for a while and is always available.
Also has lots of TG contacts from plastics to urosurgeons.

LoL
Cindy James

Quote from: Jen on January 27, 2009, 12:17:43 AM

Quote from: Tink on January 26, 2009, 08:09:56 PM
My therapist has been there for me in the darkest moments of my transition.  She has seen me weep many times; she has even called 911 for me in one occasion.  To me, she is not only "a therapist" but a second mother, a guardian angel who has literally saved my life.  Do I still see her?  Of course! transition may be over, but life isn't, and there is always something to talk and ponder about.


tink

I'm curious, Tink, do you find now that you have finished your transition you still confront such moments as dark as those?  I really never wanted to be the 'oh woe is me' type but yet I still have found myself falling into some pretty tenebrous emotional places a few times where I felt like this whole thing was testing me beyond my means.

I guess I am wondering to what degree transitioning may cure my being such a big emo mess at times.  Should I just go ahead and buy the black lipstick now?  (///_- )


<- Cute emoticon btw .

As far as GID is concerned, I am finally at peace with myself.  I am cured. My body and mind are no longer in conflict, and as I result I can lead a normal life as a female without the agonizing "trans torture" that consumed me in the past.  To me, correcting my body to fit my gender was the ultimate solution to all my troubles (i.e, severe depression, suicidal thoughts, chronic insomnia, etc)  Now, don't take me wrong, I still have my ups and downs like everyone else, but at least now, I am living MY life, a life that finally makes sense, and that makes all the difference in the world.


tink

Quote from: Tink on January 27, 2009, 09:07:10 PM

Quote from: Jen on January 27, 2009, 12:17:43 AM

Quote from: Tink on January 26, 2009, 08:09:56 PM
My therapist has been there for me in the darkest moments of my transition.  She has seen me weep many times; she has even called 911 for me in one occasion.  To me, she is not only "a therapist" but a second mother, a guardian angel who has literally saved my life.  Do I still see her?  Of course! transition may be over, but life isn't, and there is always something to talk and ponder about.


tink

I'm curious, Tink, do you find now that you have finished your transition you still confront such moments as dark as those?  I really never wanted to be the 'oh woe is me' type but yet I still have found myself falling into some pretty tenebrous emotional places a few times where I felt like this whole thing was testing me beyond my means.

I guess I am wondering to what degree transitioning may cure my being such a big emo mess at times.  Should I just go ahead and buy the black lipstick now?  (///_- )


<- Cute emoticon btw .

As far as GID is concerned, I am finally at peace with myself.  I am cured. My body and mind are no longer in conflict, and as I result I can lead a normal life as a female without the agonizing "trans torture" that consumed me in the past.  To me, correcting my body to fit my gender was the ultimate solution to all my troubles (i.e, severe depression, suicidal thoughts, chronic insomnia, etc)  Now, don't take me wrong, I still have my ups and downs like everyone else, but at least now, I am living MY life, a life that finally makes sense, and that makes all the difference in the world.


tink

Hi Tink, I like your replys, they show you are truly at peace with yourself and the inner conflict is gone.   I can only dream about that right now, maybe one day things will change, I have never told anyone but my wife and I find it hard to talk to her about it much less talking to other people.  Aloha.

Tina

Great to hear, Tink! 

I'm deluded most definitely, but not so much as to think GRS is the key to perpetual happiness in life .  My little "collapses" are always bred of the angst & anguish born from trying to live as a walking talking dichotomy, and ...buttered by the incessant fear I lack the courage/wherewithall to fix it.  Ugh, all I have to do is write the words "lack" and "courage" in the same sentence and I start spinning into a bad place..

Okay well, I really was just wondering about the extent of relief I may expect from going through what's ahead for me.  Your response has encouraged me lots! Thanks!!

I went once to mine.  Spend several hours with her that day.  Got my OK on HRT.  She found a doctor with trans HRT experience for me.  She and I keep in contact through E-mails and I see her sometimes when I have checkups with my doctors since they are in the same building.

Honestly, I don't know what I would have done without her.  There isn't a lot of options where I live for transgendered people.  It's actually a 3 and a half hour drive for me to see her or my doctors.  But they have all been great to me.  Very helpful and supportive.  If I ever need them for anything they are all a phone all away.

Cindy Tink 

Cindy

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Hi Jen, I posted this already on another thread but maybe it might be helpful on this thread as well.

I am me

I am me just a different sex. Close, I am me, but now I am the right sex, the one that harmonizes mind soul and body. When the bell goes off nothing will stop one from becoming one with themselves. That's right, being you is no big deal, you are just being who you knew instinctively to be you, nothing more. Now I am who I am, just me.

No brick wall or army could stop me from being myself. After one has made their peace with the inner-self it is like you go to sleep one night and you wake up as you, the true you. As you lay there it is as though the previous nights,*years,* of nightmare disturbed sleep fade away slowly from memory, like mist as early morning sunlight arises over the tree line.

Cindy 

Thank you Cindy, I like that a lot.  

Why do I see a therapist?  I don't.  I saw one for a short time to get a letter.  That was really all.

Bev

Wow, I feel like I'm in a minority.  Although I have known all my life that I'm TS, I never wanted to admit it.  I went to my therapist for help in dealing with my GID.  It never crossed my mind to actually begin transitioning, but that is the route that I am now going.  I had always dealt with my feelings by shutting them away, and be the "man" that everyone expected of me.  I had just reached a really low point this past summer where it became too much to suppress anymore, so I found a therapist to help me.  She diagnosed me as TG that first day, and has been a wonderful help to me since.  Now I have an appointment next Monday to meet with an endo to start HRT.  I'm still scared but the reassurances from everyone here as well as my therapist have been reassuring.  I don't know where I would be right now if it weren't for her

Yea Id be going to a therapist for the same reason too. 

Well I go to mine for several reasons.  First of all, to try to keep my sanity.  She has been so affirming when no one else was.  Of course the letters, too.  So far carry letter and HRT referral.  She is quite expensive, so I don't get to go as often as I would like, but she is good and worth it. 

Kristi