mental health disorders
Transvestic Disorder
Diagnosis of Transvestic Disorder
A doctor's evaluation, based on standard psychiatric diagnostic criteria Doctors diagnose transvestic disorder when People have been repeatedly and intensely aroused by cross-dressing, and the arousal has been expressed in fantasies, intense urges, or behaviors. As a result, people feel greatly distressed or become less able to function well (at work, in their family, or in interactions with friends). They have had the condition for 6 months or more. Most cross-dressers do not have transvestic disorder. In making the diagnosis of transvestic disorder, the doctor specifies whether a person has a Fetishistic Disorder or autogynephilia (a man's arousal by thoughts or images of himself as a woman). 