Medscape (10/24, Swift Yasgur, Subscription Publication) reports, “Transgender and gender-diverse…individuals with mental illness appear to have higher rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) compared with their cisgender counterparts,” investigators concluded in a study that “administered semistructured diagnostic interviews for DSM-IV disorders to 2212 psychiatric patients…presenting to the Rhode Island Hospital Department of Psychiatry Partial Hospital Program between April 2014 and January 2021.” The findings were published online Sept. 26 in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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