I have been on hrt for about a year and 8 months now. From that I am on hrt I cry a lot. I cry about anything and everything. I cry when I am sad,angry when I watch a movie with emotional bits.I cry about dysphoria. I even cry when I am happy. I knew estrogen was going to make me more emotional but really. I am just tired of crying the whole time each day.

Is there anyone that experienced this and how did you overcome it. When I was running on T I did not have this problem.

Quote from: Amoré on August 28, 2017, 08:43:47 AM
I have been on hrt for about a year and 8 months now. From that I am on hrt I cry a lot. I cry about anything and everything. I cry when I am sad,angry when I watch a movie with emotional bits.I cry about dysphoria. I even cry when I am happy. I knew estrogen was going to make me more emotional but really. I am just tired of crying the whole time each day.

Is there anyone that experienced this and how did you overcome it. When I was running on T I did not have this problem.

Hi Amoré!

I too became much more emotional after HRT, but I actually enjoy it! A lot! I'm seldom sad, these days... my life is not perfect, but I am now becoming my real self and that simple thought makes me forget about the bad things. When I have very deep and strong feelings (both good and bad) I do cry a bit, but it's not just simply crying... it's more like a warm flow in my whole body and tears are just one more manifestation of that; I also get goose bumps a lot when feeling emotional. It's not something that I'd like to feel all the time, but once every few days is very pleasant... It makes me almost taste my feminity. Difficult to express in words. [emoji57]

About dysphoria... Sometimes I still have bouts of it, but them I look in the mirror and I just begin talking to myself. Smiling to myself... Encouraging myself... I find it very soothing. [emoji4]

Hugs, Sarah

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I can definitely agree that HRT makes it so much easier to cry - but at the same time, It feels good

Some emotional issues here as well. Some up, some down. I watched the movie Bridge to Terabithia for the first time over the weekend and I was crying like the little girl that has been suppressed from my childhood.

Hi folks,

  Whatever you do, do NOT even think "I feel like crying"....

Laurie

Well personally I like the new range of emotions that I have. I am still getting the hang of them but lots of things make me want to cry, several posts on this forum have made me want to cry.

My partner told me it's just part of being a woman and like I said I quite like not being the unemotional rock that I use to be


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Alway's been a cry baby. Cried when I lost  ballgame all the way up to Babe Ruth League (15). Cried when my wife left me for another man. Being she married a Doctor, does not make it any less painful. I can't take any cricism without crying. I remember crying in front of my last boss when I told him it wasn't easy being me. Generally I feel more upbeat for most the time. No mad tantrums like before HRT. I find joy in being in a crowd of peers and I am so impressed with the youth that are seeking their authentic self. I want to do all I can to help them have what I was denied. After viewing the transgender community of Seattle over the weekend i am glad to be one of them. About 1300 men, women and children. and no toilet restrictions.

Quote from: Sinclair on August 28, 2017, 10:16:56 PM
Some emotional issues here as well. Some up, some down. I watched the movie Bridge to Terabithia for the first time over the weekend and I was crying like the little girl that has been suppressed from my childhood.

OMG that is one of the best and saddest kids movie ever!

Yes E makes it easier to cry. I find it freeing. Yes I have cried for being happy, sad, mad, ect. I always had these emotions but it used to be easy to suppress them. Now they are integrated into my very thoughts. For me adding progesterone really smoothed out the emotional train ride.

Quote from: josie76 on August 29, 2017, 12:16:59 AM
OMG that is one of the best and saddest kids movie ever!

Yes E makes it easier to cry. I find it freeing. Yes I have cried for being happy, sad, mad, ect. I always had these emotions but it used to be easy to suppress them. Now they are integrated into my very thoughts. For me adding progesterone really smoothed out the emotional train ride.

That movie was so unexpected! I had no idea what was going to happen.

I'm still trying to work out a good chemical balance. I have crying episodes, but also grumpy episodes, but it's getting much better. I just need to hydrate more if I'm going to watch sad movies. BTW, no one warned me that movie was so sad. 

It takes time to get a hold of the new emotions and be able to better deal with crying. I was at the movies last night and watching a part that was happy. I held back tears of happiness, although a few got out. I think I was the only one in the movie theater with wet eyes.

Quote from: Rachel on September 03, 2017, 03:26:29 PM
It takes time to get a hold of the new emotions and be able to better deal with crying. I was at the movies last night and watching a part that was happy. I held back tears of happiness, although a few got out. I think I was the only one in the movie theater with wet eyes.

  Ever since my divorce I've cried over thing that should be happy.  Hrt only seems to enhance that. I fear I cry for what I lost. I doubt that it will change. I'm still losing.

laurie

I've always enjoyed a good cry, I find it therapeutic, and it hasn't really changed too much since I started HRT.  A few newer movies that really got to me.

The fault in our stars.
Me before you

You know the funniest thing, every year for as long as I can remember, the NBC coverage of the iron man world championships always leaves me in a puddle.  The stories of individuals overcoming major adversity does it every time.

My wife will tell you I cried, A LOT. And that was Before HRT

She knows better now a days

I'm a little worried now! I've always been a crier. I hid it but did it, may the river flow! Now it's going to be an ocean?
Where's the tissues? No silly, the whole box!