u/Gerie2021

My family knows, and I presume people from my past know, but I live far from home.

TL;DR: I have been in therapy for a few years, dealing with anxiety and trauma. She's mentioned complex trauma before, but declined to say cptsd which she cannot diagnose. That's fine. She's been great and helpful. Flash forward, I am at a new psychiatrist getting a prescription filled, and I get a bunch of assessments at intake. I am immediately diagnosed with CPTSD after one interview.

While my therapist has taught me a lot of skills, I feel like that getting the label by accident has really helped me to access my therapy skills in real life, and I've noticed a huge positive shift in my overall functioning as a result.

However, I still don't want to use specific terms to describe my experience, for fear of being flippant, trite, or over dramatic, and I only start applying a label once I get 'permission' to do so by an 'expert', and think that the lack of labeling things in session might have outlived it usefulness. In fact, I think that downplaying 'complex trauma' compared to the more official label gave me an excuse to be a passive participant in my own recovery. For example, I never wanted to describe overwhelming feelings as emotional flashbacks, and now that I have been given 'permission' to use that term by a psychiatrist, I have had a really good success rate at feeling my feelings, acknowledging them, appreciating them, letting them go, self soothing, and all that good stuff.

I made a list of a bunch of terms I think might be relevant to me, and I kind of want to ask permission to use a bunch of terms to describe my own experience to myself.

Would this put her in a bad position?

Post transition means that I am done with all of my surgeries and am just living my life. I'm no longer taking active steps to 'become' anything.

Stealth means I am generally perceived as my actual gender in public. When I go to the doctor, they instinctively ask me if I think I may be pregnant and about my menstrual cycle, despite me being born without that equipment.

Hi guys. A long time ago, I made a little music theory puzzle for my dungeons and dragons group. It revolved around a lovable fuckup who couldn't get his music right, and the adventurers had to modulate his song from minor to major in order to save the day.

It's been years and this lovable fuckup has made a reappearance, but I have lost all the notes to my puzzle. Is anyone aware of a little music theory puzzle, riddle, or game that I could make his issue this time around? I don't want to have to make the puzzle again if I can avoid it.

Thank you!

I'm married for over a decade. I don't care about sports. I've never met a trans child. I will occasionally use a public restroom. But to hear people talk about it, the only thing we want to do is play sports, transition children, and generally deceive people? I'm stealth and done with all my surgeries. I feel like I have survivor's guilt because my life, aside from the existential threat of the moral panic happening, is really quite boring. It would be funny if it wasn't sad.

I'm stealth, in my thirties, debt free, financially stable, and white. For the longest time, I was so driven by my own transition that I didn't know if I would ever be in the position to help other people again. Unfortunately, I'm kind of disconnected from the community in general. I'm not located in the United States, but am fluent in English and am currently pursuing graduate school to become a psychotherapist (but was a teacher for 10+ years prior to this), but I've been energized lately to try to use my position to help make other people's lives better, specifically black and brown trans people in the US. But I kind of have no idea where to start?

I'm stealth, in my thirties, debt free, financially stable, and white. For the longest time, I was so driven by my own transition that I didn't know if I would ever be in the position to help other people again. Unfortunately, I'm kind of disconnected from the community in general. I'm not located in the United States, but am fluent in English and am currently pursuing graduate school to become a psychotherapist (but was a teacher for 10+ years prior to this), but I've been energized lately to try to use my position to help make other people's lives better, specifically black and brown trans people in the US. But I kind of have no idea where to start?