Dysphoria Storm Survival Guide: Weathering the Bad Days! Gender Specialist Offers Tips.

Dr. Z shares three important tips for your toolkit to combat gender dysphoria on those bad days when it strikes unexpectedly. Having bad days with gender dysphoria not only completely destabilizes you but can trickle down into the rest of your week, demonstrating the insane power of this condition.

Those bad days arrive when you have everything planned, then you look in the bathroom mirror and suddenly get hit with a tsunami wave of gender dysphoria. Everything crashes down—you go from feeling great to miserable, from neutral to experiencing excruciating internal turmoil. Gender dysphoria functions as a silent assassin, a ninja that strikes when you least expect it, with no pattern, moving in its own ways and fluctuating unpredictably.

The three essential strategies include: immediately grounding yourself by getting out of your mind and into your body through movement, exercise, or tactile sensations; realigning yourself with your gender goals by visualizing your future self and reconnecting with where you're headed; and throwing yourself into activities, tasks, work, or chores unrelated to gender to create healthy distractions that quiet dysphoria's noise.

Watch to learn concrete techniques for managing devastating dysphoria days and preventing them from derailing your entire week.