Hey all
Just wondering hoe easy do you cry over things you hear or if you are watching a movie ect

Im terrible with crying over things, I herd a really sad story on the radio, were a little boy got cancer and had to have both of his eyes remouved.
I was in tears are so was was my mum, it was really quite sad I don't so much cry over movies, because usually im with a group of friends and I have to hold it back?

How do you girls go with this stuff? Did HRT do anything ect? Make you cry more??

Hopr everyone is doing well

I would get choked up pretty easy but not cry.

Since starting HRT, it doesn't take much for me to get teary.   I'm able to control it much better now though.

I get choked up all the time over little things, that my ex wife wouldn't even bat an eyelash at.  I haven't even started HRT. I am worried I am going to be a weepy mess all the time, lol.

I learned a long time ago to hide my tears.  I would express things in angry outbursts. But now I know that it is just all that early training.  I am now allowing myself to cry and it is such a relief to just cry.

I've noticed that I'm much more emotional than before and I cry way to easily... A big change from someone who rarely would ever cry for anything

I remember as a young child I would start crying very easily, and I hated it at the time. These days I feel like I cannot even cry when I feel that I should... and I hate it. 

LOL.... Yeah. I do cry more often.
My daughter says I cry at Kleenex commercials 

Oh my! I have been around for a LONG time and the ol' waterworks work just fine! I am among the tear-iest of all my women friends but also among the most openly emotional. I laugh more openly, vent my annoyance openly, and tear up openly.

I don't mind - it's okay to express one's feelings.

When orf the HRT a few months back I was a tad more weepy than usual....

And what triggered a spat, was reading about a TG woman who almost died from a brutal attack..... some gay chaps in fact went to her rescue but it was a close call....

As the sh#ts that had attacked her, had deeply wounded her neck.....she was very lucky to live.... and there was a pick of her lying on the ground clutching at her neck....

And yep some films usually foreign sub-title type ones that are not the naff hollywood obviously sentimental messing ones... they can get me.

Like this one....



The scene where she's attacked is very upsetting....

I cry easily. I used to get angry, when I didn't understand my feelings and emotions, but I just cry when I feel sad.

I cry so easily now. Before HRT, my emotions ranged from feeling nothing, to feeling depressed, and anger/passive-aggression was the only way I dealt with it. I love crying, it feels so good, even if I feel horrible, and it's so much better as an emotional release than anger ever was. I never used to be able to cry.

(Edit for spelling)

Quote from: In Limbo... on November 12, 2010, 11:45:25 AM
I cry so easily now. Before HRT, my emotions ranged from feeling nothing, to feeling depressed, and anger/passive-aggression was the only way I dealt with it. I love crying, it feels so goo, even if I feel horrible, and it's so much better as an emotional release than anger ever was. I never used to be able to cry.

I know what thats like... and for me 15-20 years in an all guy school didn't help...

I've always been a very emotional person, and from early childhood I cried easily. This led to people (including my step-mom) calling me a sissy, etc. I learned to turn my emotions inward, which wasn't exactly healthy, but people left me alone. I am nearly 8 months into HRT now, but it's only been the past three weeks or so that my emotional expression has really ramped up. I can just think of someone I miss now, and get teary-eyed. I've straight out bawled quite a few times as well. It's nice to finally be able to release again instead of swallowing everything until it turns on me.

not at al!

and I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!

One of the things I most want from HRT is just that. I'd rather be a "weepy mess" than a cold fish.

Easily enough I'd say... Last week I was brought to tears because I couldn't make brownies for my party... It was looking forward to spending the evening baking them and getting compliments on them (I make really good brownies) but we were out of ingredients and everything was closed. It the logical part in me knew it wasn't the end of the world and it didn't really make a bit of difference whether they were my brownies or store bought brownies, but suffice it to say I was a weepy mess for a bit.

Crazy estrogen addling my brain!

Quote from: Vibes6 on November 14, 2010, 11:56:12 AM
I know what thats like... and for me 15-20 years in an all guy school didn't help...

I can totally sympathize with you on this, since I went through the same. 12-18. Needless to say, it was less than fun, and definitely turned me into a cynic. There were times where I just could not feel emotion, and I would look in the mirror, and see that while I was physically alive, I could see my dead looking eyes, staring right back, unblinking, no show of feelings. Being able to cry and show real emotions has been so amazing and liberating for me.

I've never had problems expressing emotions, especially with tears. Songs on the radio, episodes of The Simpsons, cheesy bits in movies. . .It never takes much to get my eyes leaking. I developed a strong sense of empathy several years into puberty and since then controlling emotions was my major issue.

Only after I started HRT did I gain that control. (And subsequently felt it waver after a change in regimen. Thankfully I'm starting to regain it.)

I cry really easily. Happy and sad tears, esp when watching things. =) I have always been like that but I was always holding it back before...now I dont care

I WANT to cry very easily (you know, when your throat feels funny), but I actually need efforts to cry even when I am extremely sad, and it usually gets blocked after a maximum of 5 minutes, replaced by useless anger and agressivity, and a weird fake feeling of rancour. Gotta love testosterone.

Crying and HRT?  I think its like which came first, the chicken or the egg?  In my experience, HRT makes you more emotional, but I think dealing with the gender issues also frees you up to be more emotional.  I redoubled my efforts to get on HRT after I couldn't shed a tear during Titanic.  After being on HRT for a while I watched Simon Burch and couldn't stop crying, though I still beleive its as much about breaking down emotional barriers as it is the effect of the HRT itself.