Over-emotional on T?

[SassySatan]

Hi! I'm Oliver, and I started T fairly recently.
I've noticed that when people talk about their emotions on T that they chill out, or become more angry. But I'm experiencing the opposite? I've been crying at the slightest thing and it's impossible to stop. I just want to know if anyone else is feeling this?

[Dena]

Welcome to Susan's Place. Not everybody responds to testosterone (or estrogen) in the same way. The real question is are you uncomfortable with the way you feel or are you happy to express emotions that you have been suppressing in the past? There is nothing that says a male isn't permitted to cry and sometimes they do just out of happiness.

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[seth.james]

Hi! I'm Oliver, and I started T fairly recently.
I've noticed that when people talk about their emotions on T that they chill out, or become more angry. But I'm experiencing the opposite? I've been crying at the slightest thing and it's impossible to stop. I just want to know if anyone else is feeling this?

Hi Oliver. I'm relatively new to T as well. I am one of the ones who have found I am generally calmer, but I also find I get caught up in odd little things that wouldn't normally bother me much. When I think about it, it seems like something a ten-years-younger me would have been upset about. In other words, a teenage me, not an adult one. I don't actually explode or act out for the most part, but I kind of "brood" for a bit, if that makes sense?

It can be helpful to keep in mind that T is basically putting you through puberty all over again. Puberty often involves extremes in emotion and, yes--tears. And as Dena says, everyone responds to hormones differently--just as everyone's puberty is different and just as everyone reacts differently to medication, everyone responds a little differently to testosterone. And there's nothing wrong with crying, of course; how you feel about it is what's important. And it's quite likely this will change somewhat with time; your body and brain are adjusting to a new hormone right now. It's hard to say exactly what will happen or when, but generally as they get used to T, people start to find they even out a bit more.

[Dan]

Welcome, Oliver!

Everybody's reaction to T can be different. For me it helps me not to have an immediate emotional response to everything. I've become more cerebral and logical about things without the strong emotions, which I love. I really needed that effect badly. I was never very emotional but when I was it was really over the top. That is now gone and I feel more in control. For that alone I'm grateful to T.

[Kylo]

T suppressed my emotions drastically, but it did make me more likely to argue with people if it seemed to me like they were being "funny" with me. While that's not an emotional response, that is some sort of response relating to self-perception, self-esteem and dominance. I never tolerated dominance by others well and I deal with it even less tactfully now. T affects people in different ways.