TNHarley
And on the link you provided.
I think part of the reason why transgender experience depression is because of bullying and offensive words.
I seen some studies that bullying makes people depressed.
The high cost of shame and stigma manifests itself in the mental health of transgender people.
www.psychologytoday.com
Shame and Stigma
Psychologists have been documenting the effect that stigma, rejection, discrimination, and abuse have on mental and physical health for decades. As the American Psychological Association pointed out in its
March 2016 report on the impact of discrimination, "for many adults, dealing with discrimination results in a state of heightened vigilance and changes in behavior, which in itself can trigger stress responses—that is, even the anticipation of discrimination is sufficient to cause people to become
stressed."
They add that "adults who are LGBT who have experienced discrimination have average stress levels of 6.4, compared to 6.0 for LGBT adults overall." In addition to the fact that "among adults who are non-LGBT, stress levels are 5.5 for those who have experienced discrimination and 5.0 for non-LGBT adults overall."
Further research by Wendy Berry Mendes and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco has unearthed discrimination's causative role in inclining those on it's receiving end
to engage in risk-taking behaviors. Out of 91 subjects participating in an online discussion with confederates who offered them rejecting or encouraging feedback, those who were on the receiving end of rejecting feedback (i.e., "Someone's a little high on themselves" or "I can't tell where you're going with this...") were more likely to take risks in a subsequent card game with small amounts of money at stake.
Rejection also led to "greater cortisol increases, less efficient cardiac output, increased vascular resistance, and impaired
memory recall — a pattern of physiological reactivity that, when experienced chronically and excessively, has been linked to accelerated 'brain aging,'
cognitive decline, and early risk for Alzheimer’s disease,"
as the Association for Psychological Science reported.
Probably if people stopped calling them freaks,trannies and such, then they wouldn't stop feeling so depressed.
Bullying can cause depression, words hurt.
www.psychiatry.org
