wow. I couldn't tell if I was just maturing or if it was the T! Suppose now I know! I used to cry at everything, it was so embarrassing!! And now, even when I want to cry, I just get nothing! The only time I do cry is when me and my bf have a fight and I get really emotional.

And that's another thing, I have become really emotional the past few years (been on T for 4) where as anger and frustration have become somewhat uncontrollable and that flares up my anxiety. But I don't know if that's a stress thing?

As for the crying - I think there's something I have to put to the test. Black Beauty. I couldn't watch that before without bursting into tears at least 30mins into the film! if I go away and watch it all the way through without shedding a tear... I think that means i'm a man. Or possibly just really dead inside >_>

Is that the version of Black Beauty with the awesome score? I think David Thewlis is in it. I've always wanted to see that version, but I don't dare. From what you say, I've made a good decision to stay away from it. Horse movies are triggering for me.

The one with that guy in it from emmerdale. Think it was filmed in the 90's

Hi, could someone explain in a clear way how T or E affects crying? What does it actually have to do with emotions?

I wished going on T also made me stop crying but this definitely isn't the case with me. I cry as easily as I can laugh  

Quote from: makipu on July 31, 2014, 05:07:11 PM
Hi, could someone explain in a clear way how T or E affects crying? What does it actually have to do with emotions?

I wished going on T also made me stop crying but this definitely isn't the case with me. I cry as easily as I can laugh

From what I've seen just from observing the trans* community, hormones' effects are very individualized. Some people say taking them affected emotional impact and expression, some people say it didn't. Everyone's emotional wiring is different. I suspect both genetics and environment play a role in how easily you're able to laugh or cry, and experience all the other myriad of emotional responses. Your hormone levels are just one factor among many.

Quote from: ♡ Emily ♡ on July 29, 2014, 02:44:36 AM
Next step of You guyse probably will be the ability to watch extremely violence on TV/movies like bloodshed (Game of Thrones, anyone?) and not having to turn Your face away... Those scenes never bother me pre-HRT, but now... can't watch those anymore and dont really want to.

My ability to deal with conflict or violent imagery has been far more affected by experiences and time than by hormones. When I was in my early teens to early twenties, I was very much into horror literature and films, and I collected medical books and documents that had gory pictures or odd human configurations. I even sought out forensic scientists to see their work and if I wanted to do that. As I got older and eventually hit some breaking point in my personal exposure to violence and death, I got less able to be around it. Now I sometimes have to fast-forward the cartoon violence in Family Guy, and I can't stomach FPS games or really any visual entertainment that has much blood or yelling. Testosterone did make it easier for me to deal with violence irl, and I react with much less fear or short-circuiting than I used to. That may just be the secondary effect of the increase in confidence that transition gave me.

As far as how hormones affect crying, I do think they can play a real part, but like Pikachu says it is super relative and you have to keep context in mind.

Hmm, even when my testosterone levels where at a normal level for a guy I just couldnt bear watching horror and a lot violence. Some of it is hormones and some -like felix said- experiences and time

Not sure if it's a combination of T and time I've been on T or antidepressants but I seem to have a more difficult time crying sometimes, especially when I want to cry. When I don't want to cry it's the same. I guess I'll just have to live with the fact I may be one of those more easily wet guys sigh.

I'm on T and still able to cry like before.

Quote from: Ephemeral on August 02, 2014, 08:29:10 AM
Not sure if it's a combination of T and time I've been on T or antidepressants but I seem to have a more difficult time crying sometimes, especially when I want to cry. When I don't want to cry it's the same. I guess I'll just have to live with the fact I may be one of those more easily wet guys sigh.

Even before T I've had some problems with not being able to cry on antidepressants. Trying different drugs can help in choosing a livable set of side effects, but some of the time I've gone off of them completely was after getting fed up with feeling like I was straightjacketed into a kind of mediocre complacency.

Quote from: Felix on August 02, 2014, 05:28:40 PM
Even before T I've had some problems with not being able to cry on antidepressants. Trying different drugs can help in choosing a livable set of side effects, but some of the time I've gone off of them completely was after getting fed up with feeling like I was straightjacketed into a kind of mediocre complacency.

I guess I don't mind for most of the part. I've had that problem sometimes in the past too. The worse side effect atm is that I can't orgasm pretty much... At least my doctor returns tomorrow so we can discuss this because it's driving me insane. I wish I at least would also have had dropped libido so I wouldn't feel as bad about it.

I'm such a geek. This is from psychology today

QuoteBiologically, there may be a reason women cry more than men: Testosterone may inhibit crying, while the hormone prolactin (seen in higher levels in women) may promote it. But a desire to cry is not all nature. A study of people in 35 countries found that the difference between how often men and women cry may be more pronounced in countries that allow greater freedom of expression and social resources, such as Chile, Sweden and the United States. Ghana, Nigeria and Nepal, on the other hand, reported only slightly higher tear rates for women (Cross-Cultural Research, 2011). Lead study author Dianne Van Hemert, PhD, a senior researcher at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, says that people in wealthier countries may cry more because they live in a culture that permits it, while people in poorer countries — who presumably might have more to cry about — don't do so because of cultural norms that frown on emotional expression.

source - http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/02/cry.aspx

I haven't cried since starting testosterone. I want to sometimes.

I read a journal article, a study whose conclusion was that T does inhibit crying, but I can't find the dang paper now. And I don't recall the methodology, either. (I know, I'm pretty useless.)

I had the same issues.
I hardly ever cry in publish but alone I felt it to be a good way to take off stress and not being able to cry was pretty irritating.
I could scream or kick something but living in an apartment with sensetive neibours it not a good idea.

I can cry if sometjomg veru sad happent, like I did cried when one of my friends died, so it not imposible just abit more difficult. I think for me it not all about crying but letting you become emotional and getting out with your feeling which is important somehow.
crying is not the only way to do that, Listen to sad music or writting your fellings down, talking to a friends are exemples of other ways to get out with your emotions and also make it more easy to cry.
I hope this helped