I was watching to movie Gravity yesterday. I got reactions I have never gotten from a movie before. It stressed me out. I was on edge. I have never been so jumpy or emotional with a movie. I am sure it's the hormones. I was just wondering if anyone else has the same kind of reactions due to hrt?

Anyway I love it! Movies are so much better now. Haha..   

I liked the ending of that movie, but the movie it self was too stressful for me.

Emotional reactions have been different since HRT. Violence is even less palatable than before (I never enjoyed it). Romantic stories are more moving.

I'm with you. I LOVE the emotional changes on HRT. I've always had a female heart, but the emotional experience of actually having female chemistry has been more wonderful than I could have imagined.

I have always cried at movies...because of that I avoided watching dramas or romantic movies for years...you know, a man cannot cry...

I don't know if any of you girls have watched the movie "Awakenings" with Robert de Niro and Robin Williams.

No movie could make me cry like this one...I think I watched half of the movie with tears falling from my eyes. This movie have made me cry three times and in one I cried of happiness (when de Niro meets his mother after awakening from a disease for the first time in 30 years)

It is this scene:



It's such an emotional and touching movie! One of my favorites!

Maybe a little bit, not sure, but then I've never been able to watch the end of 'Field of Dreams' without getting a bit emotional. But most things women find tear worthy, I can only roll my eyes at... still.

I have really enjoyed the emotional changes as well. I find that it's brought a depth to life that has always been missing.

There is something cathartic about crying over a movie, I've finally been able to laugh like I haven't since childhood and having a clarity to see when something is bothering me.

Do you think it's easier access to tears that's causing it? Maybe less fear of expression?

Quote from: FA on February 10, 2014, 12:31:52 PM
Do you think it's easier access to tears that's causing it? Maybe less fear of expression?

I think there has been a change in the general range of emotions that my chemistry is encouraging. Tender feelings are emphasized, aggressive feelings are dimmed.

It's not access to tears. I still basically don't cry.

I cry pretty easy right now, but I've always cried a lot so I don't know, I know its a lot easier to kick start a good cry.

My emotions have always been closer to the surface than most males, and I have watched my share of movies where I have been holding back tears. With me going on HRT this week, it will be interesting to see if I will feel more liberated to express that.

Quote from: suzifrommd on February 10, 2014, 12:36:49 PM

Quote from: FA on February 10, 2014, 12:31:52 PM
Do you think it's easier access to tears that's causing it? Maybe less fear of expression?

I think there has been a change in the general range of emotions that my chemistry is encouraging. Tender feelings are emphasized, aggressive feelings are dimmed.

It's not access to tears. I still basically don't cry.

Oh, that's interesting. That's one thing I don't like about T - there are times when I could really benefit from crying - but it just doesn't happen anymore. I mean, it happens rarely but never when it's really needed.  I do miss it. It can be a really nice release. Never really cried much during movies though.

Quote from: FA on February 10, 2014, 12:47:58 PM
I think there has been a change in the general range of emotions that my chemistry is encouraging. Tender feelings are emphasized, aggressive feelings are dimmed.

It's not access to tears. I still basically don't cry.


Oh, that's interesting. That's one thing I don't like about T - there are times when I could really benefit from crying - but it just doesn't happen anymore. I mean, it happens rarely but never when it's really needed.  I do miss it. It can be a really nice release. Never really cried much during movies though.

When stress and anxiety overwhelm me to the point that I am physically sick, I have found crying to be the most therapeutic thing I can do. It seems to release something inside me, and that breaks the stress. But in my current T influenced state, I need a trigger. I usually watch a really sad movie.

Quote from: FA on February 10, 2014, 12:47:58 PM
I think there has been a change in the general range of emotions that my chemistry is encouraging. Tender feelings are emphasized, aggressive feelings are dimmed.

It's not access to tears. I still basically don't cry.


Oh, that's interesting. That's one thing I don't like about T - there are times when I could really benefit from crying - but it just doesn't happen anymore. I mean, it happens rarely but never when it's really needed.  I do miss it. It can be a really nice release. Never really cried much during movies though.

I guess T must of affected me differently because I cried a lot growing up and beyond. Unless I didn't have much in me to begin with

I think it might be a combination of hormones and less fear or expression ~ I'm not on hormones yet but since coming out and being open and expressing myself as myself, i find myself getting teary eyed and crying more easily in movies that move me.

And to add to the list: The ending of The Green Mile always kills me.

 I have welled up with tears a few times before HRT. I still haven't cried much yet. Unless you count Christmas. ... I guess coming out is freeing so there might be something to that. I think hrt just gives you an added kick. Haha. But my reactions during the last few movies was not anything I can hold back.

I cried at Mask,Ghost and Imaginarum.Maybe it's a combination of HRT and no longer being afraid to show emotion ?

I always cry at the end of Braveheart when William Wallace is killed. Then the next scene where they go fight the English for him, omg so sad. Weird thing is, I lost both my parents a few years ago but didn't or couldn't cry. I was really sad, ofc, prolly needed to cry, but nothing came out. I just figured I throw that out there. I'm pre hrt btw.

-Kelly

Quote from: LivingTheDream on February 10, 2014, 05:41:20 PM
I always cry at the end of Braveheart when William Wallace is killed. Then the next scene where they go fight the English for him, omg so sad. Weird thing is, I lost both my parents a few years ago but didn't or couldn't cry. I was really sad, ofc, prolly needed to cry, but nothing came out. I just figured I throw that out there. I'm pre hrt btw.

-Kelly

I am sorry about your loss I know how it is, I lost my father not too long ago... I couldn't stop crying , but a few days after I was still in shock and I could not cry anymore...I was just...catatonic...

But talking about william Wallace...I always cried when William is just a kid and he is at his fathers funeral crying, then he receives a flower from the girl who one day will become his wife...and then I cry again when she dies at the middle of the movie...

I dont watch movies often ,,, so If I cry it will be while watching an anime XD

but i remember crying at the end of I am legend and also on click ...looong before hrt,,surprised myself lol

One movie I LOVE gets me angry right at the very end. "A Mighty Wind" is a wonderful movie with an awesome cast, excellent music and brilliant performances. BUT: at the very end Harry Shearer decides to become a woman. Someone thought that would be funny. So at the end the "new" Harry S. is singing with The Folksmen, singing BASS with the trio, and made the theater roar in laughter. Being the only TS in the theater I thought "yeah, wicked funny..." BUT - I still watch that movie at least twice a year to hear some great performances. But that ending - grrrr...they were doing so well until that!