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Gender-specific risk factors increase the likelihood of getting a particular mental disorder based on one's gender. Some gender-specific risk factors that disproportionately affect women are income inequality, low social ranking, unrelenting child care, gender-based violence, and socioeconomic disadvantages.
Gender identity disorder: Specialty: Psychiatry, psychology Symptoms: Distress related to one's assigned gender, sex or sex characteristics [1] [2] [3] Complications: Eating disorders, suicide, depression, anxiety, social isolation [4] Differential diagnosis: Variance in gender identity or expression that is not distressing [1] [3] Treatment
The 5th version, [11] published in 1998, was titled the "Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders" to be consistent with the DSM-III. It recommended but did not require psychotherapy and stated that while GID was a mental disorder, that was not a license for stigma. [15]
The terms gender identity and core gender identity were first used with their current meaning—one's personal experience of one's own gender [1] [16] —sometime in the 1960s. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] To this day they are usually used in that sense, [ 8 ] though a few scholars additionally use the term to refer to the sexual orientation and sexual ...
Other classifications are used relative to one's gender identity rather than assigned sex. [citation needed] The United States has seen increasing social trends since the early 21st century that allow for less rigid expression of one's own gender identity, and gender-nonconforming people may express a range of masculine and feminine traits.
Personality disorders are common in transgender people. [143] Gender identity disorder is currently classed as a psychiatric condition by the DSM IV-TR. [144] The upcoming DSM-5 removes GID and replaces it with 'gender dysphoria', which is not classified by some authorities as a mental illness. [145]
A 2009 study [161] separated 27 students with conditions including autism, dyslexia, developmental coordination disorder, ADHD, and having suffered a stroke into two categories of self-view: "A 'difference' view—where neurodiversity was seen as a difference incorporating a set of strengths and weaknesses, or a 'medical/deficit' view—where ...
Gender nonconformity or gender variance is behavior or gender expression by an individual that does not match masculine or feminine gender norms.A gender-nonconforming person may be variant in their gender identity, being transgender or non-binary, or they may be cisgender.