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Are there any shock treatments for gender identity disorder?

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Dr. Pamela Pappas answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Not specifically: "shock" therapy is not used to treat gender identity disorder. However, it can be useful in treatment-resistant depression and some psychoses. Depression frequently travels along with gender identity disorder, but there are many treatment options before ECT would be considered or used.

Answered 6/10/2014

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For Gender Amnesia?: 1>gender identity disorder =diagnosis now discarded from american psychiatric assn's diagnostic "bible"! apa no longer deems ppl who identify as transgender/gender non-conforming as inherently mentally "disordered." (apa stopped labeling ppl who identify as gay/lesbian as mentally ill in 1973.) 2>"shock therapy" can result in memory loss. But change how u see urself as man? Woman? This has failed!

Answered 5/12/2016

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