Dysphoria
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Dysphoria (from Greek: δύσφορος (dysphoros), δυσ-, difficult, and φέρειν, to bear) is a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction. In a psychiatric context, dysphoria may accompany depression, anxiety, or agitation. It can also mean someone that is not comfortable in their current body, particularly in cases of gender dysphoria. Common reactions to dysphoria include emotional distress or indifference. The opposite state of mind is known as euphoria.
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In psychiatry
Intense states of distress and unease increase the risk of suicide, as well as being unpleasant in themselves. Relieving dysphoria is therefore a priority of psychiatric treatment. One may treat underlying causes such as depression or bipolar disorder as well as the dysphoric symptoms themselves.
Gender dysphoria
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Gender dysphoria is discomfort, unhappiness, or distress due to one's gender or physical sex. The current edition (DSM-5) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders uses the term "gender dysphoria" in preference to "gender identity disorder". DSM-5 introduces the term "gender incongruence" as a better identifying and less stigmatising term.[1]
Related conditions
The following conditions may include dysphoria as a symptom:
- Major depressive disorder (unipolar) and dysthymia
- Bipolar disorder[2] and cyclothymia
- Borderline personality disorder[3]
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
- Stress
- Adjustment disorder with depressed mood
- Anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder
- Dissociative disorders such as dissociative identity disorder, dissociative amnesia, and depersonalization disorder.
- Mixed anxiety-depressive disorder
- Gender dysphoria, sometimes diagnosed as "gender identity disorder" (the latter term and its identification with gender dysphoria is controversial)
- Personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder, dependent personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder
- Substance withdrawal
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Akathisia
- Hypoglycemia
- Schizophrenia
- Sexual dysfunction
- Body integrity identity disorder
- Insomnia[4]
- Chronic pain[5]
In popular culture
Dysphoria is featured in many songs by PBR&B Artist Lee Art. Against Me! released the album Transgender Dysphoria Blues in which the lead singer Laura Jane Grace shares her experiences of gender dysphoria.[6]
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Notes
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- ↑ Thompson, Stephen. "First Listen: Against Me!, 'Transgender Dysphoria Blues'" NPR. NPR, 12 Jan. 2014. Web. 27 May 2014
