Two weeks of hormones and i am an emotional wreck. I am quite happy about this, but it does feel odd crying several times a day about.... well nothing really.
This is great, i have emotions now!
You will start to get to grips with it in 4 to 6 months. After that it eases off a bit (but not much) because the novelty factor wears off. After that you just have to get used to it and keep tissues in your handbag
Welcome to puberty #2
Yaaaay!
Tissue companies should be our best friends as we are good for business! :)
I love it when for no silly reason at all I start crying and then 2 seconds later am giggling. It really messes with people!
Welcome to the emotion zone!!!! ;D
I have never been on HRT, but I became rather emotionless recently. I guess the main factor is aging.
However, I live in a country where many people have to cry everyday. Too many accidents and tragedies.
Anyway, crying is good for our mental health.
Good luck!
barbie~~
I honestly wasn't aware of crying randomly since I am living as female for the moment...but it becomes easier to for sure.
Not to mention hot flashes. Wow!
But yeah, I cry quite often. It's ok though.
I try not to. My makeup is too expensive ;)
I cry way more than I want to most of the time. That's all I wanted to do at work today was cry but you learn to let it all out when the time is right.
Quote from: Jessica Merriman on August 14, 2014, 09:00:05 PM
Tissue companies should be our best friends as we are good for business! :)
I love it when for no silly reason at all I start crying and then 2 seconds later am giggling. It really messes with people!
Welcome to the emotion zone!!!! ;D
I know how that is.
Quote from: Zoe the Obscure on August 14, 2014, 03:30:56 PM
Two weeks of hormones and i am an emotional wreck. I am quite happy about this, but it does feel odd crying several times a day about.... well nothing really.
This is great, i have emotions now!
I felt the same way when I started HRT. At first I was bothered by the emotions, then I realized I
could feel for the first time since my first puberty went horribly wrong.
I have to say I haven't been all that more emotional. I mean I have always been fairly emotional anyway, able to express how I feel when I feel it. I'll cry when something really upsets or moves me...and the HRT has really helped that along, but I'm not all over the place. I was during the first go at transition and I was worried I would be again this time but so far it's a more level field. Yay!
I cry when I'm happy I cry when I'm sad, and I cry at sad parts or emotionally moving parts of movies, and sometimes even songs -but I was like this before hrt as I've always been very emotional. Just not with the fierce intensity, the lovely feminine intensity I have now.
Ali :icon_flower:
It's been nice being able to let my emotions out, but on Tuesday I had my first irrational tears. I live like 30 mins away from my Mom and I was in the area so even though my Mom was at work I decided to stop in to play with the dog for a bit. Just before I left and I was giving him one last pet goodbye, I just started tearing up. I had just seen him a few days prior and it probably won't be longer than a couple weeks before I stop over again so I have no clue where that came from. I like being able to cry during a movie, but I hope those crazy tears don't happen often.
I get worked up when I read about crimes, injustices or suffering against women or young children.
One recent example
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/outposts/post/little-girl-survives-11-days-siberian-forest/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-tFDavzfc
I mean I was just riveted to the story and my heart skipped a few beats once the video showed her crouching in the grass found.
Quote from: Evelyn K on August 15, 2014, 02:24:06 AM
I get worked up when I read about crimes, injustices or suffering against women or young children.
One recent example
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/outposts/post/little-girl-survives-11-days-siberian-forest/
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I mean I was just riveted to the story and my heart skipped a few beats once the video showed her crouching in the grass found.
Stuff like this always tears me up also. Sometimes I have to not watch news like this to avoid the river. So believe me I understand.
Ali :icon_flower:
^^ yes agreed.
and of all the irony's. just this minute a few tears of happiness after looking in the mirror. is it the hormones? or genuine unadulterated heartfelt happiness...
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While I do love myself and do have to watch staring at my legs, etc., silhouette when I pass my full length mirror for fear of stirring up urges, y'all get the idea, but there's still something missing before I can love myself fully. If all goes well that final piece will be put into place this December and I'm made whole. Then I'll be able to fully love myself.
Ali :icon_flower:
It's odd. When the emotional cannonball hit me about a month in, I cried like two or three times. Then it stopped again, even though I'm way more emotional in other ways. I guess there's something wrong with my crying initiators.
But an emotional wreck otherwise, oh yeah.
Hmm, am I weird for not enduring all these emotional swings?
I feel happier and I can deal a lot better/recover quicker from negative moments but I've been very stable so far,boringly so. I do feel tears coming up quicker but that's about it.
E seems to have more direct influence on my body than my mind/emotions
I went through about two months of incessant crying while I was still on low dose HRT; this was a little more than a year before I went on the transitioning dose. I could not stop bawling. I had flown to California for a job interview and I was bawling 15 minutes before the interview, but managed to dry it up in time. I probably had red eyes in the interview, but I still got the job :)
Now there are TV shows I simply can't watch, and during the day emotions will wash over me out of the blue and I will tear up. Even something as simple as a song that has great meaning for me will turn on the water works. I try not to cry so that I won't screw up my makeup but that doesn't always work.
It is nice to finally have emotions.
Oh my, I'm really agitated hearing this. I think I would cry a lot, but, am I going to be forced to cry for my entire life? That sounds scary....
Quote from: Eva Marie on August 15, 2014, 07:26:32 AM
Now there are TV shows I simply can't watch, and during the day emotions will wash over me out of the blue and I will tear up. Even something as simple as a song that has great meaning for me will turn on the water works. I try not to cry so that I won't screw up my makeup but that doesn't always work.
I cant watch re-runs of extreme makeover home edition without crying..
The mood swings were a little getting use to in the beginning.
After two months on hormones I still pretty much feel the same though I was told I am on a lower dose so maybe that will change once it gets increased. I'm a fairly happy positive person to begin with, and typically the only thing that really sets me off is thinking about sad things involving my parents. Before I had told my dad, just thinking through possible outcomes had me fighting back tears.
I was watching the movie "Avatar" the other night on TV and right at the end I started crying like crazy for no reason I can figure. I had to try hard to contain it so I wouldn't wake up my parents and have them wondering what the heck was wrong with me.
My mood has been good and stable since starting HRT. There have been a few 'purges' of remnant stress left over from 'the old days' and from coming out to various people, kind of an expression of great relief at reaching new milestones. I do find it easier to be emotional at times but appreciate not storing it up into a big crash like I used to. It's nice to be able to tear-up when something makes me really happy.