Honestly pre-transition I wouldn't have said I was suffering that much, but looking back I was suffering a lot and just didn't know everyone didn't feel that way. It's so easy to rationalize your suffering such that you think it's normal, and thus acceptable.
Yeah, I always gave myself a reason to not call one of those mental health hotlines because I didn't have it that bad. As long as I'm not currently attempting to follow through on... plans... then surely it's merely a bad day and I can just ignore it and let it solve itself.
Nowadays if I feel even half as bad I'll be concerned enough to call.
I suffer from the complete opposite problem, im so depressed and dysphoric that it seems impossible that life could ever get better. Yet somehow I constantly question if its just my depression and if I actually suffer from dysphoria at all.
shit, I had the same realization lately I never thought I had dysphoria worth thinking about until I started crying the other night over it not to mention the incredible joy I feel when presenting fem, wearing a skirt on stage at a concert felt so freeing and unbelievably pleasant
Needed to hear this thank you!
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