Two Biggest Long Term Effects of Not Dealing with Gender Dysphoria.
Dr. Z explains the two most detrimental long-term effects of living with gender dysphoria.
Effect #1: Brain Working Overtime (White Noise)
Your brain works overtime because it's trying to work on the dissonance between your biological sex and your true gender. Your brain perceives this dissonance as a problem. Our brains are created to solve problems—and this is one problem it's NOT going to solve. Your brain ruminates on this problem.
Your brain creates white noise in the back of your head where it's constantly working—like a computer disc drive going into overdrive and heating up. Your brain runs on 24/7 running circles trying to solve this problem of dissonance, trying to figure it out—but it can't because it's a medical condition and you have to do something about it.
Why is brain working overtime a problem? It occupies so much space that it starts interfering and having an effect on other areas of life, manifesting symptomatically: hard time concentrating at work (part of brain preoccupied trying to solve unsolvable problem), hard time sleeping (anxiously lying in bed thinking about it), hard time eating (decreased appetite), hard time connecting to people, hard time focusing, hard time living/breathing. You feel depressed, anxious, hopeless, helpless. All stems from that part of brain being in overdrive.
Effect #2: Shifting From Living To Existing (WORSE)
Many of you are very smart, incredibly adaptable, and figured out a way to live with the white noise—like figuring out intangible solutions for overheating computer (turning it off to cool down, then back on). You numb that noise through eating, drinking, shopping, gaming, or even much more harmful behaviors. Many of you are able to live with dysphoria for long periods because of adaptability. But just because it's adaptable doesn't mean it's good.
Watch to find out the danger of living with white noise long term (you mentally shift from LIVING to EXISTING), what the difference is (when we live we're present in the moment for ourselves and others—when you're existing you move through life on autopilot as a robot, not connecting to yourself or anybody else, pure survival not living), why many of you dissociate during sex (sex exposes us, makes us vulnerable, puts us in connection with our body), and why loved ones automatically tell you "you feel so much more present" when you start dealing with dysphoria.
