Paul Wilson (@paulmwilson): "Mere etymology does not define or limit usage. The APA diagnostic criteria are here: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphoria/what-is-gender-dysphoria The APA does not consider gender nonconformity to be a delusion and their change rationale is here: https…"

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Paul Wilson Feb 12

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Mere etymology does not define or limit usage. The APA diagnostic criteria are here:

psychiatry.org/patients…

The APA does not consider gender nonconformity to be a delusion and their change rationale is here:

psychiatry.org/psychiat…

Daniel Howard James

Feb 12

'Bearing badly' is the literal meaning of dysphoria; it doesn't mean anything else.

Of course believing that your body is not your own is a cause of distress. Clinicians reframed the distress rather than the delusion as the problem, but affirmed the delusion that caused the distress.

Feb 12

7:43 PM

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