Examples of dysphoria in the following topics:
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- Gender dysphoria is a controversial diagnosis characterized by a person's discontent with the sex and gender they were assigned at birth.
- Many people who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria identify as transgender, genderfluid, or otherwise gender non-conforming in some way; however not everyone who identifies as transgender or gender non-conforming experiences gender dysphoria.
- Advantages and disadvantages exist to classifying gender dysphoria as a disorder, however.
- Gender dysphoria exists when a person suffers discontent due to gender identity, causing them emotional distress.
- Researchers disagree about the nature of distress and impairment in people with gender dysphoria.
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- Another recent change to the DSM-5 is the renaming of "gender identity disorder" to "gender dysphoria."
- One of the major impacts of this change is the reduction of stigma by changing the language from "disorder" to "dysphoria," which serves as a step toward depathologizing people who identify as transgender or differently gendered.
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- Notable changes include the change from autism and Asperger syndrome to a combined autism spectrum disorder; dropping the subtype classifications for variant forms of schizophrenia; dropping the "bereavement exclusion" for depressive disorders; a revised treatment and naming of gender-identity disorder to gender dysphoria; and changes to the criterion for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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- Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood, such as intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety lasting between a few hours and a few days;