Gender dysphoria (formerly known as gender identity disorder in the fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM) is defined by strong, persistent feelings of identification with another gender and discomfort with one's own assigned gender and sex; in order to qualify for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, these feelings must cause significant distress or impairment.| Psychology Today
Advice to parents of newly out nonbinary youth and young adults from someone who has been there.| Psychology Today
“A deep, persistent unease with being associated only with the binary gender assigned to them from infancy.”| Psychology Today
How do we know if we're transgender or nonbinary, anyway? Let's break through doubt and analysis paralysis by affirming our felt sense of resonance and dissonance.| Psychology Today
The gender binary is deeply entrenched in Western society, but gender has historically been viewed in a more fluid manner.| Psychology Today
It's no secret that people have biases. But the nature of "implicit bias"—and whether it can be meaningfully changed—is less clear.| Psychology Today
Most identities distinguish us from other people. What if our identities connected us with everybody else?| Psychology Today
Adolescence is partly about experimentation with self-definition to try out and find out what identity truly fits.| Psychology Today
Identity crisis is a term we normally associate with adolescence. However, adults can grapple with identity issues throughout life. What's your identity status?| Psychology Today
Anger is one of the basic human emotions, as elemental as happiness, sadness, anxiety, or disgust. These emotions are tied to basic survival and were honed over the course of human history. Anger is related to the “fight, flight, or freeze” response of the sympathetic nervous system; it prepares humans to fight. But fighting doesn't necessarily mean throwing punches. It might motivate communities to combat injustice by changing laws or enforcing new norms.| Psychology Today
Openness to experience, or simply openness, is a basic personality trait denoting receptivity to new ideas and new experiences. It is one of the five core personality dimensions that drive behavior—known as the five-factor model of personality, or the Big 5. People with high levels of openness are more likely to seek out a variety of experiences, be comfortable with the unfamiliar, and pay attention to their inner feelings more than those who are less open to novelty. They tend to exhibit h...| Psychology Today