I let off HRT unwillingly last year around this time. My mother had found that i had been taking HRT on my own, and tossed all of my 3 months' worth of it. So as that happened, and coupled with my mom's intolerance, i cried. the second night, i felt my breast growth stop and cried for hours before i fell asleep. i kept my boyfriend up till 4 AM sobbing on the phone with him almost every other night. and then i finally snapped and ran away from home 2 weeks into it, even knowing that my mom was also emotionally unstable and had clinical depression among a host of other health problems. the brash testosterone-fueled version of my body was taking over, and i really had no way to fight it. I felt helpless for a long time, until i found my way to a prescription-writing doctor and a letter. Now i'm back to being optimistic and i hardly ever feel the dark alone-ness that used to envelop me all the time.