What a SHAME! The 'Crying' effect

[Shelina]

I'm facing the biggest humiliations in my life ever. I'm somebody who NEVER cried at this age I am but I've noticed ever since I started taking hormones I have become emotionally hyper sensitive and flair up in tears for almost all petty things and stupid reasons.

1. I love a straight guy at work but I never told him and this is killing me inside, I often go in the toilet to cry.

2. Few days ago my supervisor was teasing me and I felt hurt and tears came into my eyes but I managed to retain a bit.

3. But today it was really too much, one of my colleagues scolded at me for some job-related reasons and I bursted up in tears in front of everyone. It was so ->-bleeped-<-ing embarassing. I was like a child of 3 years who got scolded. 

Do you girls know a technique to handle this problem?

[Jamie-o]

Ah yes.  Welcome to womanhood.  That's one of the things that I am so glad to leave behind!  It's so frustrating when you're upset and really want to make a point, but you're so choked up that you can hardly talk, and you know if you try you'll just start crying.  Unfortunately, after over 30 years of estrogen induced bawling, I still never found a way to really control it.    The only thing that ever helped (and only to a degree) was to take deep, slow breaths and try to dissociate from the emotion.  Concentrate on relaxing, and imagine your chest is hollow and empty.  Also, try not to think about how the situation makes you feel, but try to approach it from a purely logical standpoint.  I know, not always easy under the circumstances.  I wish you luck.

[NicholeW.]

Do you girls know a technique to handle this problem?

Being on hormones for a year or so.

The emotional control will get better, but tears are a possibility at any time you have an emotional stake in whatever's going on. And finding you have an emotional stake in some odd event going on still isn't an unusual thing.

The best technique to handling it is to not worry too much about being emotional. For many it's a side-effect of an estrogen-rich body. And not a bad or embarrassing thing at all.

I would suggest that if you're in aboard-room debate or a staff-meeting debate or some such thing that you do your best to not be emotional. Especially if the debate is with a man. You'll prolly get crucified in the minds of others, women and men, if you do.

Another one of the perks of living life on the distaff side of sex.

[Shelina]

OMG! Today Thursday August 13th 2009, I bursted up in tears in front of everyone at work again cos of that guy who I'm in love with still doesn't know I love him. It was exploding inside.

CAREFUL WITH PROGESTERONE: It's a very safe medicament but only side effect I would say is the 'Crying Effect'... Generally I was doubting whether it was the estrogen, finasteride or spiro but now I am 100% sure it's Progesterone which triggers the crying effect with me. It's only when it's time to take this cyclically per month that I start to become a drama queen.

[sweetstars]

progestin=bad.
Micronized Progesterone really is the only good bet.

Personally the moody part does go away, or at least levels off the more you are on hormones.
Also cycling hormones is not that great of an idea for ones mood.