how does estrogen effect your brain?i don't wana become stupid and irrationally angryi value my intelligence and selfawareness
>>42080585Estrogen is different for everyone in my observation. It makes me less irrationally angry but does make me more anxious.
>>42080585you will become stupid but maintain self awareness which makes it even worse
>>42080585for me i lost a good bit of my intelligence and selfawareness for about 4.5-5 years but it eventually came back to me
>>42080585It made me get more emotional but i'm not any less intelligent or logical.
>>42080607>>42080601fake and gay. you retain the exact same intelligence but because you're not a man anymore nobodys gonna suck your dick over what a special little boy you are
>>42080629>literally 0 cases of ppl maintaining the same intelligence after starting hrt
>>42080585I've recently upped the dose and I've had this 1 weird experience when I was intensely laughing about some thing and at some point I instantly went from laughing to crying for no apparent reasonI guess that's how it feels like. Also, to answer your questions, I don't feel any more or less stupid than before and anger feels easier to contain.
>>42080585yes, hormones affect your brain. including hormones that are not estrogen or testosterone.you wont become stupid and irrationally angry they dont affect you THAT deep
>>42080585it does not make you stupid. I think it actually made me smarter, because depression *really* does make you stupid and it made me not depressed. But it does make you more emotional. I found I wanted a lot more affection and companionship after transitioning. And I cried much more often, which felt nice tbqh because I never cried before
i feel part of why it seems people become irrational after starting e is because you are not equipped to handle such intense emotions that you were not experiencing prior. it takes a while to learn to keep those sorts of things in check
>>42080585You're fine, the stupidity in cisfoids comes from female socialization
>>42080642i get this alot after starting hrt
>>42080585desu it basically cleared up a lot of noise inside my head and i feel way more “normal” and inline with general societylike i don’t feel as alien like before, when it started i was like “so this is how normal people feel?” it just feels normal and kinda sane other than that, i appreciate cute things more than before, it’s kinda more deep and i feel physically smaller, but i’m quite tall, so everyone feels smaller as well but when someone is taller than me then, oh fuck HES TALLI enjoy malebrained stuff less than beforemy brain feels way more capable nowi always wanted to code, draw, 3d model, but i could never do it. no matter how hard i tried i could never get it. i spent hours drawing with no success. coding tutorials, books guides, making tons of really bad models and not understanding anything.now i suddenly understood coding basically out of nowhere, i suddenly could model high fidelity 3d assets, i suddenly could draw and been drawing every day since then. all those software suites feel quite simple and easy to understand now.
>>42080585It made my anxiety worse and panic attacks became much more common for me. My reactions became much more exagherated, especially my startle response. I get scared more easily in regards to being home alone but luckily I have a German Shepard who makes me feel more safe when alone. ik I lost all my boy muscles by now and I dont feel as bold as a result. I dont get angry as easily as I used to and I am more patient about things. While I’ve always been a very emotinal person, I do feel a little more sensitive. Although when I first started injectibles I was ESPECIALLY sensitive. Naturally libido decreases but I can still get very horny when someone gets me going in the right way.>>42080607This sounds off. I had this response while very early on in my transition where I felt a bit slower and my memory became less sharp but that was only for a few months and I suspect was the doing of the anti-androgen I was using at the time. Because when I changed anti-androgen things soon went back to normal.tl;dr estrogen turned me into my mother
>>42080585i don't think it makes you stupid i don't feel any more stupid than beforethe only two things i know for sure estrogen changes about you is how receptive you are to your emotions and how you feel sexual arousal.your emotional highs will be higher but your lows will be lower too. it'll feel A LOT easier to cry but it's not a really like bad thing.sexual arousal probably varies more person to person and what they're into and stuff but i noticed a big difference personally.
>>42080642Totally normal btw. Totally not mentally ill!
>>42080585It's a bad idea.
>>42081652>Person experiences mood swings with hormonal changes>"Crazy! Psycho!"wtf do you moids think a period is
>>42080585it doesn't make you stupid and irrational and if anyone tells you it did it to them it's got more to do with the fact that testosterone makes stupid, irrational people think they're intelligent and self aware and they are now blocking it
>>42081579What if you had a man to take care of you and protect you?
i got intense mood swings but its calmed down now but i never got aggressive it was always unbearable sadness and i wouldnt say that im more or less dumb but like others have said my anxiety is way way worse i had to quit my job and i dont go outside anymore and im planning to kill myself.
>>42080585Most changes are more emotional than anything.Intelligence changes are a meme.
>>42080585nothing. it literally did nothing except kill a lot of my sexual desires and make me functionally asexual.
it made me feel kind of slower mentally, though that got a little better after I stopped antiandrogens. Maybe that's a sign I'm faketrans.
If this is your baseline intelligence, I wouldn't be too worried...
It amplified my emotions, now I feel deeper dread and more fury at injustice, but also more motivation and ability to have joy. I also got more sympathetic to feminist issues.
>>42083102jesus woman get help, you deserve better than this
I started hrt when finishing my bachelors degree.I then finished masters while fully on hrt. I did not observe any changes/problems
