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This is actually so interesting, see the way teenagers tend to be a bit more impulsive, daring and not being able to think entirely straight due to the amount of hormones in their body... does that mean when I go on hormone blockers before I start estrogen I'll be able to think more clearly?

Quote from: AlexisB on November 19, 2012, 12:11:23 PM
This is actually so interesting, see the way teenagers tend to be a bit more impulsive, daring and not being able to think entirely straight due to the amount of hormones in their body... does that mean when I go on hormone blockers before I start estrogen I'll be able to think more clearly?

My understanding is that it's not hormones that make teenagers impulsive and daring, but the fact that the part of their brains that govern judgment is still developing (often into their 20s).

Well you go on T blockers or E blockers, so you'll still have hormones. Consequently, you wont have the behavioral impacts of peak hormone levels. If you're past that puberty age anyways though, it won't matter.

Uhm, yes, very much so. Anti-androgens unclouded my mind in many ways. A big chunk of that was the annihilation of arousal, at last.

Quote from: agfrommd on November 19, 2012, 12:50:27 PM
My understanding is that it's not hormones that make teenagers impulsive and daring, but the fact that the part of their brains that govern judgment is still developing (often into their 20s).

^ To a certain extent, this.  Very often you'll see teens who have been talked through something logically, and at an intellectual level, they understand, but they'll still go off and do whatever it was they were intending to do anyway.

Regardless though, hormonal changes are likely to change your mood and thinking.  How much, as everyone says here is variable. =)