Mainly I struggle with depressive episodes, dysthymia, anxiety, paranoia, phobias, self harm, dissociation, and panic attacks. But also, currently undiagnosed, what sound like meltdowns and shutdowns, stimming that is and isn’t considered self harm, hypersensitivity, selective mutism, an...
This is why it is almost exclusively raised in cases involving serious violence, such as murder. As Victorian judge Phillip Cumminsrecently pointed out, the defence is rarely employed and when it is, it is raised in only 1% of felony cases. How does it work and when is it successful? In...
Some people also experience dysphoria only in the form of dissociation, or a state of unreality, numbness, or disconnection.They might not connect this to their gender at all, because it’s not an emotional state they can necessarily identify so quickly in the first place. For...