Yes there is no doubt in my mind that HRT changes thoughts. I have been on a lower starter dose of HRT for 3 months, then my GP doubled it and then doubled it  on the 6 month mark again, so now I have been on Progynova E only for just over 12 months.  My T level is just 1.2 well within the natal CIS Female level. At first I only noticed that I cried a lot  at the 3-4 month mark, but after abut 8 months, I became a much more calm person, more relaxed about stuff. Its as if all the male drive has left. I am also noticing stuff around me much more. Perfume on other women seems so much more pleasant. I can definitely smell some men and  I think am slowly getting the attraction to beautiful men, although my sexual preference has always been women.

Interestingly I had to present as male last week for some meetings and so I put on some brand new skinny leg jeans I had bought (Womens). With my rounded bottom (I have added three inches and emerging hips, they fit very well. One of the men in the office said, I have never seen you in jeans before - they look really great on you). But back to the thoughts changing. Well in the last month I have definitely become a ditzy female. I have left the handbrake on the car  whilst driving three times and yesterday whilst my car backing into a car space - it took me 7 attempts. I just couldn't get the alignment write.

My mind seems to wander a lot and  I now realise why women love shopping for clothes. I can easily spend an hour in a shop looking at different clothes or talking makeup with the cosmetics girls.

I love it!

Thoughts happen in the present so to say they change is impossible.

It is possible I would think the same things on T. I certainly COULD. Would I? How woud I know?

I have my doubts that I think exactly the same. My dreams SEEM to have changed. More immediate. Less abstract. Far easier to interpret. But it is possible I could have dreamed the same on T.

A statistical analysis would help. Signs lead toward changes in thought patterns, I have yet to see proof.

Quote from: Tori on December 19, 2013, 01:01:28 AM
Thoughts happen in the present so to say they change is impossible.

Technically yes, but the OP was likely referring to the way thoughts occur, so a change in thinking. And yes, I have experienced this. In fact, it occurred overnight and stuck with me since. It's possible that if you don't see a change in thinking, maybe you were already there, but for me I started off more masculine-minded than I care to admit, and suddenly wound up getting all 'girl-brained' and developed stereotypical thought-patterns for a woman. Part of this is seeing things through the eyes of a woman, but the other part is just the influence of hormones on the brain, and perhaps the resulting focus on emotions and things like that. For example, I can understand now why women often multitask... It's hard to focus on just one thing, especially when you feel the need to be more social and devote more time to introspection and experiencing/processing emotions, and well.. everything else! 

But of course, YMMV. Not everyone responds the same way to things.

I don't mean to kinda steal the thread, but it's related to OP's question, and I feel it would have been a bit repetitive if I made a whole new thread. For those that are the creative type, did your perspectives and creativity change through Estrogen? Like, did you start painting a different kind of artwork or play a new kind of style of music? I'm asking because I'm writing a book series and have it all planned out, and I just have this irrational worry that if I start E all my work is going to change into something totally different. And I hope no one takes this offensively, but out of curiosity did your ability in your work change too?

Well, at times I really cant concentrate on some matters - but my colleagues have told me that I am more pleasant person to work with. Less tense and stressed, more open and talkative (sometimes too talkative). I still maintain my deadlines, but sometimes it takes extra time for me - and sometimes I am working very efficiently...
My mind does wander alot too, at the same time my multitasking has improved - I can cook/prepare 2-3 different meals, while talking on the phone and checking out what my 2.5 y.o. daughter is doing in the other room, but I cant type and talk on the phone at the same time . I do get angry at times, but the drive to keep going is not there anymore - I would have struck the wall before but now it is just exhaling out loudly and getting back to business .

Quote from: Tyler92 on December 19, 2013, 03:32:47 AM
I don't mean to kinda steal the thread, but it's related to OP's question, and I feel it would have been a bit repetitive if I made a whole new thread. For those that are the creative type, did your perspectives and creativity change through Estrogen? Like, did you start painting a different kind of artwork or play a new kind of style of music? I'm asking because I'm writing a book series and have it all planned out, and I just have this irrational worry that if I start E all my work is going to change into something totally different. And I hope no one takes this offensively, but out of curiosity did your ability in your work change too?

This is SUCH an interesting set of questions! I'm facing exactly the same issues, since I write fiction and I'll be starting HRT in the middle of a series of books. And I can't help wondering whether I'll be able to finish the books in the same style that I started them, or are they going to suddenly seem very different: not necessarily better or worse, just written from a different perspective with different emotions and a different thought-process.

Any ladies out there with experience of similar situations?

Quote from: Carlita on December 19, 2013, 05:16:18 AM
This is SUCH an interesting set of questions! I'm facing exactly the same issues, since I write fiction and I'll be starting HRT in the middle of a series of books. And I can't help wondering whether I'll be able to finish the books in the same style that I started them, or are they going to suddenly seem very different: not necessarily better or worse, just written from a different perspective with different emotions and a different thought-process.

Any ladies out there with experience of similar situations?

I can only share how reader's perspective has changed for me... less interested in action and more into descriptions (main characters, clothes, scenery, food ). And I can surely attest that female writing style is very different from male style, especially considering detalisation and descriptions of heroines (oh, yes, there are actually heroines, not only female support characters) .

I became more emotional, im not as cold and distant anymore.  I get alot more upset then I used to, but it takes me a alot longer to lose my cool now.  Still think men are gross, that never changed much. aside from that no where near as suicidal as before and random likes and dislikes changed.

after more than 2 months I'm finding  my body feeling very feminine and my mind seems to be tagging along. As far as creativity I can't tell because I'm into mathematics and my intuition always been pretty feminine.

Quote from: ♡ Emily ♡ on December 19, 2013, 05:32:27 AM
I can only share how reader's perspective has changed for me... less interested in action and more into descriptions (main characters, clothes, scenery, food ). And I can surely attest that female writing style is very different from male style, especially considering detalisation and descriptions of heroines (oh, yes, there are actually heroines, not only female support characters) .

Oh, don't worry, I already write heroines ... that's the bit I like best!

I certainly think about being on T blockers and E more often. That is different.

Quote from: ♡ Emily ♡ on December 19, 2013, 05:32:27 AM
I can only share how reader's perspective has changed for me... less interested in action and more into descriptions (main characters, clothes, scenery, food ). And I can surely attest that female writing style is very different from male style, especially considering detalisation and descriptions of heroines (oh, yes, there are actually heroines, not only female support characters) .

If that becomes true for my writing then that would actually be awesome cause right now I'm a little weak on descriptions and scenery. Hopefully I'd be able to keep at least a relative amount of action in it though lol. I guess I'll just have to see when the time comes.