i was wondering if anybody has experienced changes in habit or in personality since starting hormones or if you are pretty much the same person as you were before?
i have found that i don't really like alcohol anymore which is probably a good thing.i have noticed that my speech is a lot clearer as i tended to mumble before.i find i cry easily these days even at stupid things.before it was pretty rare for me to cry or get emotional.
in general i am a lot more happy and contented and tend to smile a lot more.i have lost the severe depression and the anxiety and any thoughts of suicide.i function a lot better at work and i'm so much more productive.
rachel.

I've found since starting blockers, I'm less pass remarkable due to being happier about myself, I'm more laid back but will stand my ground more. I think the latter is more due to an increase in confidence.

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I don't stand under the TG umbrella anymore, it's way too bitchy and crowded in there but it's sunny out here

In the grand scheme of things I'm pretty similar

But I am happier, more confident, and much more likely to stand up for myself when being wronged

So any changes there might be I'd say are quite positive

I don't think I could describe any of my changes as personality changes. Since I've started hormones, many people have observed that I am happier, more settled and more confident.

Much as the others really. I have the right hormones for the brain.

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I think that on the whole i am slowly improving, I am more sociable ,talkative and generally happier, although the family thing is still to be sorted but at least it doesn't worry me so much anymore, more confidant definitely I would never have dreamed of doing some of the things i'm now doing..........

I don't think i've had any real major personality changes

altho i think i'm somewhat more easy going ( in that i tend to stress less) but that wasnt so much from the hrt as it was from orchiectomy

I guess i just experience the "eunuch calm"

i also tend to cry alot more than i would other wise and in the same instance i think i'm laughing alot more also.

although i'm far from confident and still in an ugly place as right now i'm really "in between" the poles of male and female- and.....i can't live my life as eunuch with boobs. Its just unsettling.

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More or less the same, I have not noticed but all those around me have seen a difference.

The only down side at the moment are the mood swings, when I get a mood ....I get a mood, I am not a nice person to know........BUT that may be part of the transtion....or it could be that I'm just a moody ....bull.

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I should say that others who know me well are becoming increasingly suspicious due to my change in mood.I have been asked what i am on twice now , One wanted to know what it was as they wanted some .....
I think that shortly after christmas i will have to change my name instead of my currently using two

I dont think ive changed a great deal. My temper has deffo been the most noticeable. Before I was so laid back I could've fallen over but these days the slightest things sets me off on a rage.

I too completely lost my depression when I started. I think this is due to both knowing I'm finally on the road to 'ME' and that the progress towards 'IT' has been stopped. I also feel that my confidence and self esteem improves as my body matures.
As far as sensitivity goes, yes, I have my sensitivity and emotions back, which I LOVE! I lost them in my mid teens, became totally isolated. Now I can laugh, smile, cry and feel the warmth of a hug and its fantastic to have those feeling back which I thought I'd lost.

All in all I feel much more myself than I did before I started and glad that you feel better also

Keep smiling!

JJ x

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Actually I felt very depressed about a month into the hormones, yet about another month and a half later, this disappeared and I felt a whole lot better, with a lot less gender dysphoria and the "maleness" seemed to fade away from me, which felt relieving. I still have some anxiety and mild depression at times, but this is part of me which has always been there for most of my life and is not going to be completely alleviated by transition. Another thing is that I can multi-task even better than I used to, I realised this as I was creating a word document whilst fully being able to concentrate on a phone call I was making at the same time at work :p

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i think it's really difficult to separate the changes in mood due to hormones and just generally transitioning. i mean, the whole deal is a massive undertaking that cuts right through your life in very extreme shades of positivity and negativity. it's going to have an impact on you whether you like it or not, mones or no.

than again, i recently went of HRT for about two months and, well, since going back on i've been kinda surprised at how much more stable i feel. it's scary to look back and see how frayed my mind was getting. then again, like i said, there were a lot of other contributors to my crappy moods.

i've been told i'm more confident, seem happier and more at ease with myself, yadda yadda, by people. i've also had some really nasty depressive jags.

YMMV.