Hi all, I've been on HRT for 4 months and overall I'm feeling so much better. The last week or so though has been seriously rough emotionally. I feel like I am absolutely full up and have no emotional bandwidth left for anyone else's stuff.
This afternoon at work, I listened to a colleague complaining (quite understandably) at length about how shit things are in her team. I felt happy to listen to it at the time, but after I got home I felt distraught, overwhelmed and incredibly upset, like a snow globe that had been shaken too hard. I had a similar feeling on Sunday, feeling totally overwhelmed and extremely sensitive
It's hard to know how much is hormonal and how much is my mind and spirit just having had enough. I feel like I'm close to emotional burnout, and I'm taking some steps to address that. I have definitely been containing too much of my partner's emotional baggage for a long time, and I've told him that I can't do it anymore. That conversation went well and I'm hopeful that things will change
I don't have that awful feeling of being out of my mind and not knowing who I am anymore, like I did before I got on HRT. It feels more like grief - I feel distraught and overwhelmed, then I cry it out and feel so much calmer
Anyone else had similar experiences?