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Dear Emma and Mikaylajane, Just attended an outstanding lecture at the library, and the mental health therapist who was giving the lecture said that psychotropic medications should never be given without concurrent counseling, and, except in rare cases, should never be permanent, but reevaluated regularly. Wishing you both health and wellness. Yours truly, Monica

You might want to think about slowingggggg down. You have many things on your plate and they don't need to be solved and understood at the same time. They can't be. Throughout my life when things got real tough, and they often do, I realized I couldn't fix everything at the same time, so I tried to break it down and address the most important first. Sometimes it would take a long time to come up with a solution, but I found it would work. Then I would address the next, and the next, and things seemed to snowball in my favor, until all my baggage was gone. Be true to your therapist and develop a plan for one thing at a time. Love.

Dear Emma, Men and women are equally nasty, just men show it through violence and women, because society doesn't give them permission to be violent (until very recently), are nasty by emotional and verbal abuse. My dream is of a society that is secure enough that people do not resort to such behaviors. Remember, it is a people problem, not a gender problem. Yours truly, Monica

Yes, I believe confidence in yourself is very critical! We need to remember we are not out to prove anything to anyone else. We need to feel good in our own skin and our own mind, and that's what our dilemma in life has been, to do just that.💜

I have been reffered to a therapist My ins sucks so I don't have many options for them. Anyway I am supposed to here from them in a day or two. I hope that therapy will help me. I have a lot of issues not just my Dysphoria that I need to deal with. My Dysphoria is a very big one. But also the fact that I was shamed as a child for being me. Which leads to me shaming myself. Also the fact that the biggest supporter of me in my life was my older Brother who was taken from me tragically on Oct 12th 2016 in a motorcycle accident on the highway. And the fact that my ex totally mentally abused me for years. I also have been thinking of going to a support group for trans and non binary individuals it is held on the 14th Sunday of the month. So hopefully my ex can take out boy for a few hours so I can go. She said she is supportive of me but Idk I have heard that one before. Anyways I am hoping to feel better with myself because I need to be there for my son. And he is my number one goal in life to raise him to be accepting and caring. I see so much of myself in him. He is a caring sweet little boy. I also see at times his mother coming out and him being very hurtful at times and I know he is 4 but I want To stop that cycle now while I can hopefully. He is I think just torn to a point and doesn't know how to deal with his emotions because he is 4 he is very smart for his age almost too smart at times for his own good. I'm hoping that something will help and give me peace. Also I just said screw it and posted a transgender awareness video to my Facebook account. Hoping to maybe that will shed some light on things to my family and friends. My sister had posted a very hurtful message to me on a comment I made in my sister in-laws post so I blocked her. She is too hurtful to me. She has been since I was about 12. I have as little contact with her as possible taking steps to become the person I need to be and trying to be happy. It is challenging to say the least.

My wife used to often make such observations too, as if she was my personal coach. She said that crossing my legs at the knees, fluttering my hands while speaking, standing with hands crossed, so many things, made me appear effeminate and would cause people to think I was weird. It was so painful to hear her since I was simply being myself, often otherwise happy. She’d bring me crashing down to earth. I did defend myself but was too hurt to try to make any part of it humorous.