Calming effect of hormones - myth or no?

[Dennis]

Add fail to ask for directions and drive around for an hour like an idiot and I can say "I've done that"

Dennis, you forgot the tragic accidents that begin with the words, "Hey, look what I can do."

No no, it's "watch this. Hold my beer."

Dennis

[sneakersjay]

I can honestly say for me, T had a calming effect.  Or maybe it was the combination of T plus hysto...the first month on T I still got my period and that incited an ugly rage (but then, my period always did that).  Since starting T I no longer have anxiety, I'm more confident, and as a result much calmer and 'zen'.  I guess I've always been that way, but the whole wrong body thing was irritating and I was far more stressed living that way.  All of that tension has dissipated.


Jay

[Lachlann]

Well, if we can equate this to anything like medication, half of it is mental.

Sometimes we don't allow ourselves to be calm or at peace.

[NicholeW.]

Add fail to ask for directions and drive around for an hour like an idiot and I can say "I've done that"

Dennis, you forgot the tragic accidents that begin with the words, "Hey, look what I can do."

No no, it's "watch this. Hold my beer."

Dennis

Silly guys! It's actually this.

Hey, look what I can do. Here, hold my beer.

Nichole

[tekla]

Oh, you know those guys then?

[NicholeW.]

Oh, you know those guys then?

O, yes, I've been acquainted with various ones throughout my life!!

I learned this from it: Never get into a car when the guy drinking the most beer is driving!! LOL!!

[tekla]

Never get into a car when the guy drinking the most beer is driving

But the rest of us need that time to catch up.

[sd]

I learned this from it: Never get into a car when the guy drinking the most beer is driving!! LOL!!

It's not always smart to let the sober one drive either.
Guys, we need more gas money... hour later... guys we need more gas money...

Why did we need so much gas? To beat the Porsche of course! 

[NicholeW.]

It's not always smart to let the sober one drive either.
Guys, we need more gas money... hour later... guys we need more gas money...

Why did we need so much gas? To beat the Porsche of course! 

I'll take my chances with the sober one, Leslie! Even if it might mean using more gas!

My worst experience was hitchhiking with a friend from Monterey to Seattle back in the mid-seventies. We got a ride on the ramp of U.S. 1 in Santa Rosa with this fellow who had us and two other hitchers with him in the car. He also had a bottle of hash oil into which he continuously was dipping his Marlboros as he chain-smoked and was well on his way to finishing a case of Budweiser.

The trip through the redwood forest that night and past the rocky coasts of northen Cali was ... exciting?

Even in the dark at 65 mph with a totally wasted driver I was ... very impressed with the size of those trees and the depth of the chasms made by the headlands!

Nichole

[Aiden]

Have found the emotional rollercoaster I used to be on all the time has stabilized some.  Though I still get anxiety, and my temper hasn't improved but don;t think it's gotten much worse either.

Still can;t talk to my father though without breaking down in one form or another though.   Lot of anxiety with him.