Consultant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Letterkenny General Hospital, Ireland.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan.
Asian J Psychiatr. 2019 Aug;44:86-89. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2019.07.010. Epub 2019 Jul 5.
Gender Dysphoria is a condition with a strong and persistent incongruence between one's experienced and assigned gender. The magnitude of disturbance is enormous, ranging from social isolation, rejection, segregation and exclusion from the society to some severe mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, self-harm and death. The condition been recognized across wide range of cultures around the world; however the degree of its expression and tolerance varies. Art has long been used as a medium for expression as well as a tool for therapy. In this paper, the researcher has used the medium to highlight the challenges associated with Gender Dysphoria.
性别焦虑症是一种强烈且持久的个人体验性别与被指派性别之间不匹配的病症。其紊乱程度非常严重，从社会孤立、排斥、隔离和被社会排斥，到一些严重的心理健康问题，如焦虑、抑郁、自残和死亡等。这种情况在世界各地的多种文化中都得到了认可；然而，其表现和容忍的程度有所不同。艺术一直被用作表达的媒介和治疗的工具。在本文中，研究人员使用该媒介强调了与性别焦虑症相关的挑战。
