A memoir of three years in psychiatric institutions after a teen is diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder for not being feminine enough.
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A memoir of three years in psychiatric institutions after a teen is diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder for not being feminine enough.
Placed in a mental hospital at age fifteen after being diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder, an author shares her harrowing ordeal in the hopes that other teenagers will not suffer as she did due to a lack of understanding of sexual orientation.
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Sexual molestation by strangers and authority figures; institutional abuse context
Physical restraint, seclusion, and assault within psychiatric institutions
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Hospital sedatives; smoking; faked drug addiction to deflect diagnosis
Central focus on gender identity, GID diagnosis, and gender nonconformity
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No magic or witchcraft present
No occult or demonology content present
Critique of psychiatry pathologizing gender nonconformity and institutionalization
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Institutional abuse, sexual molestation, restraints, neglect; sustained systemic cruelty
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