Are people laughing at me or am I paranoid? My therapist tells me I must be getting paranoid when I say it is hurtful when people laugh at me when I am out in public dressed, or even unisex in some cases. (It certainly does not happen all the time, but just in a couple of instances fairly recently.) Maybe i am just too sensitive. Obviously, it is real, and not paranoia, but then are therapists any use in this sort of thing, or is it better to go to a board like this, and seek one's own therapy, on a catch as catch can basis?
(My family has had the opposite problem with physical doctors, not believing they were as sick as they were. One member of my family was given pep talks on enjoying meals, having a drink of wine and eating nicer streaks, etc., and sent to a psychiatrist and put on anti-depressants, right up until they died of the by then terminal cancer that was causing their discomfort in the first place.)