I don't know how I feel about some of the posts equating being stupid (or whatever) to being female. I don't have any modes cause I can only be gendered female, for better or worse, but I definitely get treated like I'm stupid for having boobs and a pretty face and I'm not. Sorry for the derailment, but I think that needs to be addressed. If you have some sort of fog, which may be related to HRT, but not to being female, then one should see a doctor and not consider it part of feminization. There may be some other issue at play. My motor skills and everything else is absolutkley the same.

But as long as I'm here, if you're going to start HRT, then you will change in many ways no matter how much you think you won't. Now, you could be lucky and privileged (I am and I acknowledge that privilege) and pass 100 percent or close to it even when you dress very butch (I dressed as butch as I could today and still got called babe and baby by men) and that will probably change you for the better. Or you could not pass, be full-time and things could go awesomely or you could become very bitter.

But, if you are considering HRT, YOU WILL CHANGE. There's no way changing and turning upside down how you are viewed will not change you.

Yes, I've experienced profound mental changes since I got my hormone levels stable.

I used to be angry and aggressive all the time, to the point where I was scared I might hurt someone.  I was irritable, defensive, paranoid, and deeply insecure.  I couldn't focus and my thoughts raced all the time, which just made me more angry and afraid.

For me, getting my T levels under control meant getting my life under control.  Testosterone was literally driving me insane.

So yes, the mental changes from hormone therapy are real, and they are profound.  But they can also be the one change that means the difference between life and death for some of us.

ahem... also I love shopping, fashion and clothes, so love nice clothing

L Katy

At a couple weeks under four months I don't really feel any different from before mentally. Maybe a somewhat higher propensity to cry but that's hard to say as I already cried before.

I did a search for mental effects of MTF HRT and found this thread. I just started E last week and am trying to prepare for what is coming. I sure hope that I have good emotional/mental results like what are described in this thread.

Hello again Ms G

Just to let you know there are plenty of HRT stories and details of people'e experiences including mental changes and emotional changes on the HRT Board.

Wishing you happiness and success.

Hugs

Pamela

Quote from: Rose City Rose on November 19, 2014, 01:46:34 AM
Yes, I've experienced profound mental changes since I got my hormone levels stable.

I used to be angry and aggressive all the time, to the point where I was scared I might hurt someone.  I was irritable, defensive, paranoid, and deeply insecure.  I couldn't focus and my thoughts raced all the time, which just made me more angry and afraid.

For me, getting my T levels under control meant getting my life under control.  Testosterone was literally driving me insane.

So yes, the mental changes from hormone therapy are real, and they are profound.  But they can also be the one change that means the difference between life and death for some of us.

I have to agree with you, Rose City Rose. I'm at 7 months on estradiol (I can't take Spiro or any other T-blockers), and I've essentially become a different person. Some of it's difficult to describe, but I feel calmer, more sensitive, much more emotional. I enjoy interacting with others more, even strangers. And like you, I seem to have shed the anger that created interpersonal messes for decades, and I'm very grateful for this.

I truly hope I can stay on my beloved patch for the rest of my life

Hugs
Lindy

Quote from: katrinaw on November 19, 2014, 05:58:55 AM
ahem... also I love shopping, fashion and clothes, so love nice clothing

L Katy

What would we do without our clothes, Katy!! As a male, I essentially wore a uniform every single day: jeans, hiking boots, drab shirts. Now I need color, patterns, nice fabrics! Skirts, dresses and cute little jackets. I feel so happy when I enter secondhand stores that I giggle

Happy shopping,
Lindy

Hello again Lindy

I have also experienced significant mental changes from HRT. I think our stories are similar in that we both went onto HRT and Laser and Electrolysis in 2018.

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,241374.0.html

Hugs

Pamela