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Re:Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial by gjvnq on Saturday October 15, 2022 @08:11AM (#33214113)
> There has never been any good scientific evidence that depression (or any other mental health issue for that matter) involves a “chemical imbalance”.

Transfem here. Gender Dysphoria is a hell of a condition and it usually improves massively as soon as people start taking cross-sex hormonal replacement therapy (HRT).

In my personal experience, it was almost like magic how quickly and how much I improved when my testosterone finally fell to zero.

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Re:Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial by skissane on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:17PM (#33219170)
You’ve wanted something for years and now at last you are getting it - that fact alone has to make a person feel happier and feel like the trajectory of their life is turning in a more positive direction. It is near impossible to determine what consequences of cross-sex HRT are due to its direct biochemical effects, and which are due to those kinds of psychological factors.
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