Tragedy of a Two-In-One Situation- A Rare Case Report on Gender Identity Disorder

Abstract

With the advancing civilization, the complexity of human mind is also rising. It brings psychological disturbances and upsets off and on. The proper upbringing of a child plays vital role in psychiatric development of an individual in later life. Here, the gender identity takes pivotal role, in disturbance of which there come numerous psychiatric disorders and adverse situations. Many a times the person affected becomes unable to combat the stress created by the gender identity disorder. Gender identity disorder is said to be one of the most suppressed psychiatric entity. Studies show that there is a very close relationship with depression, which often leads to suicidal tendency. This is a rare case report where a person, after going through sex-change intervention by removal of the penis, scrotum and testes at an early age, suffering from depression resulting from gender identity disorder, died of suicidal hanging. This incidence proves the necessity of dealing these situations with utmost importance and care.