Response to Hollie-Anne Discussion
Response to Hollie-Anne Discussion
Male hypoactive sexual desire disorder is a sexual disorder typified by lack of sexual desire while gender dysphoria is a disorder characterized by a sex-related pattern where individuals feeling that their assigned gender is wrong. The diagnostic criteria of these two disorders are very different and this can be attributable to the different symptoms and clinical manifestations.
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The diagnostic criteria for male hypoactive sexual desire disorder include persistent lack of sexual desire or sexual fantasies, followed by lack of interest in sexual activity; the symptoms must lead to significant distress to the individual and relationship problems (Clayton et al, 2016). On the other hand, gender dysphoria is characterized by significant incongruence between the physical gender and the experienced gender (Sadock et al, 2014). In addition, individuals with gender dysphoria strongly desire to get rid of the sex characteristics associated with the assigned gender while on the other hand, they desire to have sex characteristics belonging to the desired gender. In addition, people with gender dysphoria are strongly convicted that they have characteristic feelings of the opposite gender (Sadock et al, 2014). Response to Hollie-Anne Discussion
In both male hypoactive sexual desire disorder and gender dysphoria, the symptoms must be clinically adequate to cause significant distress and also impair the individual’s functioning (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In addition, for the diagnosis of both disorders, the symptoms should not be attributable to other factors such as medications, alcohol or any medical condition. During the diagnosis of both disorders, the symptom duration is very important. In gender dysphoria, the symptoms are supposed to be present for a month while for diagnosis of male hypoactive sexual desire disorder the symptoms are supposed to be present for six months or more (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
References
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Clayton A, Sheryl K & Irwin G. (2018). Evaluation and Management of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. Sex Med. 6(2), 59–74.
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
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