05-01-2012, 04:39 PM
Hi P,
I'm not sure what the difference is. With PM, I'm contented too. However, you yourself have said that when you go off PM, the desire to cross-dress returns. What if you came off PM and denied yourself the cross-dressing for an extended period of time? Have you ever done this? I'd be interested to know the result.
The full name of what Vitale refers to is "Gender Expression Anxiety"; you've never really had a problem expressing your feminity have you? I think you once mentioned being an active participant in the TV scene, or do I have that wrong?
The thing is, I am coming to the conclusion that my anxiety symptoms were caused by the inability in my situation to express my internal gender via clothing, and this manifested as "true" anxiety. You on the other hand have been using cross-dressing for a long time and it was only after taking PM you ceased to feel the need to do so.
I think the only difference between me and the other "middle-grounders" is that I have not been in a position to cross dress for some decades now.
Anyway - not really worth arguing about... I think our relative positions are of a marginal interpretation! I'm not a quibbler... (honest!
)
B.
PS I forgot to say, I don't swallow everything Vitale says hook line and sinker. It's just after treating 450 sufferers, she's got a bit more experience than me..
I'm not sure what the difference is. With PM, I'm contented too. However, you yourself have said that when you go off PM, the desire to cross-dress returns. What if you came off PM and denied yourself the cross-dressing for an extended period of time? Have you ever done this? I'd be interested to know the result.
The full name of what Vitale refers to is "Gender Expression Anxiety"; you've never really had a problem expressing your feminity have you? I think you once mentioned being an active participant in the TV scene, or do I have that wrong?
The thing is, I am coming to the conclusion that my anxiety symptoms were caused by the inability in my situation to express my internal gender via clothing, and this manifested as "true" anxiety. You on the other hand have been using cross-dressing for a long time and it was only after taking PM you ceased to feel the need to do so.
I think the only difference between me and the other "middle-grounders" is that I have not been in a position to cross dress for some decades now.
Anyway - not really worth arguing about... I think our relative positions are of a marginal interpretation! I'm not a quibbler... (honest!
)B.
PS I forgot to say, I don't swallow everything Vitale says hook line and sinker. It's just after treating 450 sufferers, she's got a bit more experience than me..