I'm not a psychiatrist, but I would suggest that man visit one.
and lets take it a step further, to actual cases.
By Mooncows | Nov 14, 2011
6 Comments
I don't know if anyone can help me. My son was diagnosed with schizophrenia a year and a half ago but a few months before he was diagnosed he told me that he was transgender. This surprised me because I remembered that at the age of 13 or 14 he was looking longingly at his sisters girl friend who had come to visit for a few days. In his senior year he briefly dated a girl for about a month and told me she was his girlfriend. He seemed very excited about having a girlfriend but it ended for some reason. He never told me any of the details and I didn't ask. About four months after that he was diagnosed with sz.
I have read that there is some connection between sz and feeling transgender but there isn't a lot of information linking the two. Nothing definite. In the mean time he is in support groups for transgenders under the encouragement of his psychologist who doesn't have a lot of experience with sz.
My husband and I would like him to go to a different psychologist, one who has experience with sz. Someone who knows more than the Dr he sees now. It's hard though because he likes his current dr. and we don't want to alienate my son in any way. He is a wonderful person.
We will support our son if he truly is transgender but something tells me that it is related to the schizophrenia.
Can anyone chime in on this? Thank you all so much.
At a NAMI meeting the mother of a schizophrenic patient related to my husband that feelings of being transgender also something her son had felt and she had been told that it was not totally uncommon. I have found a few papers related to the subject.
Three or four months after my son started his medication (Zyprexa) he mentioned that he didn't seem to think he was transgender anymore, then apparently the transgender feelings returned.
There was a patient in Australia (I think that's where it was) who went off his medication and began to dress in women's clothing and take female hormones. They switched his medication and he returned to his former male self.
Somehow it seems to be related, at least with the Australian gentleman.
mustlovecats
Mar 30, 2012
To: Mooncows
Just wondering if you have had any luck. We are in the same situation, except my son has a girlfriend now and says they are lesbians.
Dioscuri2
Apr 28, 2012
To: Mooncows
I've known several transgendered people who were very likely schizophrenics. I think what happens is that the abuse transgendered people receive triggers schizophrenia. Many people carry genes for the disorder, but never develop it.
I am transgendered and can tell you that people start letting you know at a very early age that they'd like to see you dead for being transgendered and to a very young person that can be quite traumatic.
The reason I'm personally considered about the possible relation between transgender is that I have schizophrenic parent and carry two copies of a gene for schizophrenia even though I haven't developed symptoms.
You will heat horendous stories of abuse and abandonment from male to female transsexuals which usually took place while they were adolescent. This is usually when schizophrenia is triggered.
In people who are not transgendered the trigger can take the form of the sexual abuse of a young woman or the traumatic experiences of being in a combat situation in war which is something a young man might experience.
^^those are real people posting about it. so its not a laughing matter. but to say its 100% not a mental issue and its "NORMAL" is nonsense.