Psychopharmacotherapy of Severe Self-injury in an Adolescent with Gender Dysphoria and Comorbidity.

The article presents a case study of a 16-year-old adolescent transgender girl with Gender dysphoria that leads to self-injury. Topics include involvement of adult transgender in suicidal attempts, observation of increment in substance use disorders among transgender youth, addressal of comorbid depression in the patient through selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, illustration of neuroleptics addition in antidepressants and utilization of sertraline monotherapy as treatment process.