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Adam - I have now read your other thread in this forum, where you mentioned that you are concerned that seeking professional help for these voices that you are experiencing, could negatively effect your chances of being approved for female-male gender reassignment in the near future.

But do you know this for sure?

And is there someone in the know who you can contact anonymously to find out for definite about whether this is true?

I dont know alot about this subject, but I would have thought that it would be quite common to see psychological disturbances in a person who has spent their childhood and adolscence being trapped by their very own anatomy and being forced to live their life as a gender that they dont identify with in their heart, mind and soul - surely that has got to screw with a person's psychological health, and that the doctors and psychiartists who do the assessments before the gender reassignment surgery would expect the person to be a little emotionally disturbed by that experience?

That's just what a layperson like myself would think anyway.

Without wanting to sound too scary or pessimistic, I think that if these voices get really bad for you in that they manage to totally dominate your rational mind, then they may cause you to commit an act (eg - suicide, homicide) that is going to destroy not only your chances of being approved for this gender reassignment surgery, but it will destroy your whole life!

So I really believe that you need to think about looking after yourself right here and now, and get some professional help for these voices now rather than hesitating and postponing getting help because you are concerned that it may effect your future, because if you dont manage to get on top of this problem soon, then there may not be a future!

Sorry to get all heavy and dramatic on you like this, but I do think that considering the nature of these voices that you are experiencing, and the possibility that you may lose your determination to resist what the voices are telling you do to, I feel that its very important to find a way to get some professional help for yourself.

I saw that you stated in your other post that you lived in Nottingham, UK ..... does anyone have any contact details (names, phone numbers etc) for any mental health facilities or counselling services in that area?