~~~ Pulling a Fast One ~~~

A man walked into a bar and started chatting up a cheetah. I said to him "You're pulling a fast one".

Wheeeee! !Whoosh! through the dark and scary cave of Purging, and back out into daylight. In fact, rocketing very high indeed, I was chuckling to myself all round Tescos: really digging being a tranny; planning buying a pair of really sexy black leather boots and loving every second of it; admiring various girlies in nice clothes. I even stopped to complement a Goth Girl on how good she looked; we talked about "A Nightmare Before Christmas" and so on. I don't know if it was the effect of throwing out those boy clothes, but it's certainly knocked me out of those depressive thought patterns.

And before you think to yourself "Oh, that's nice, Gemma's back to normal", think again. I've been reading up about depression today. This sort of wild mood swing is not normal, and is a feature of depression. Or at least, it's bipolar (manic/depression). Which got me thinking: is the purge just a tranny form of depression? Which means it's treatable with certain cognitive techniques. Please, if anyone out there starts suffering a purge, fancy being a guinea pig? We'll see if we can beat it using some thought pattern restructuring.

And something good came of it too. I was looking to see if there were any therapists who dealt with depression and gender-related issues who used cognitive therapy. "No" was the resounding answer. Looks like I've found another area of specialisation then; trannying and depression go together like Dolce and Gabana.