#my antidepressant is testosterone

[theautismzone]

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[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

I made a meme do you leik it :)

[howdoweevensurviveinthislworld]

This is such a blessing of you to share my story. I'm so sorry and embarrassed to ask you to donate as well

There is nothing to be ashamed of here. You're doing what you have to, to survive and to me it's truly commendable that even in a situation as grim as this, you're still fighting!

That being said, I'm really sorry. I can't fulfill that request right now. I am unfortunately not in a financial situation where I can donate.

HOWEVER I am currently looking for a job, so once I have disposable income I'll make sure to donate !!

[vulpinesaint]

so much medicine in my body today. medical procedures georg if i am quite honest with you

[stimmingandstruggling]

(slightly tmi i guess, talkin about bottom growth)

ok so i’m like 2 months on t and things have been pretty slow going. i know for a lot of people bottom growth is one of the first changes they notice, but i havent noticed anything so far. UNTIL. last night i woke up in the middle of the night like bitch WHYY am i so uncomfy. then i was like wait. is this the discomfort/itching i was warned ab with bottom growth. i was tired as fuck so i changed into some looser underwear and went back to sleep but today i was just showering and looked down and YEAHHH! THERE HE IS!!!!! bro i feel like there was NOTHING a day ago but now there is SOMETHING and it’s so cool. i wasn’t expecting this to feel so gender euphoric but i love it

[wylansworkshop]

y'all, when I realized I was nonbinary I did not expect getting gender dysphoria from buying vitamins

[gilfrespecter]

Me when being on an antidepressant makes me less depressed

[carfuckerlynch]

oh god i super gotta figure out how i can get my prescriptions filled

[kerosene-saint]

they picked this of all images to show for me in my 8th grade year book.

[scramratz]

Is it weird to say testosterone is an antidepressant for me? Like yea I appreciate the new secondary sex characteristics but also my brain just…functions better with T

[dontcrycroft]

i got a drawing tablet! heres the first dnp piece ive drawn on it so far :3

it lacks whimsy i apologise ive just gotten back on my antidepressants 😭 i hope ur all doing well! im currently undergoing the amazingphil transformation! AKA im one momth (and a bit) on testosterone! hooray!

[genderqueerdykes]

So I was terrified of taking T for the longest time because of what I heard about T making people more emotionally unstable (from transphobes but also I had one (1) person in my life get really violent with me after he started transitioning and that scared me and he said he couldn’t help it)

I was even more scared after my doctor gave me estrogen pills for my period (without my permission, I explicitly told her no female hormones and if that wasn’t possible, no pills) and I had a massive depressive and psychotic episode. The worst I’ve had in a decade for three straight weeks. And now I’m about to start T and everyone in my life is basically prepping for me to have an even worse mental breakdown on different hormones

And I’ve been fine. I’ve been better than fine. I’ve been so happy. I feel so much love and joy for life and the people around me and everything. I feel myself getting less spiteful and for once in my life I’m starting to like my body as it is. And it’s just wild. It feels like that one tumblr post that’s like “you’ve been without the Vitamin for so long and yet you prevailed? You’re so brave”

So I guess my blanket statement is that what happened to that other guy was unrelated to taking T and that the ppl fearmongering are cruel

hey i totally understand what you're saying, that's so fucked up. i'm sorry they forced you on to estrogen- that happened to me as a teenager and exact same as you. psychotic & depressive episodes. whenever my T levels drop severely i become very psychotic and depressed. it's not like i'm just like. upset that i don't have my T, my body's functioning just changes

i'm really glad to hear you're doing fine! i never understood the "T makes you violent" argument because most people who want/need it take it and feel relief after they start HRT. like for many it has an antidepressant like effect. and it's not because it's a steroid, it's because that person needed that hormone level to be higher. hormones also affect everyone differently and it's just nonsensical to apply a blanket statement to testosterone when people don't really do the same with estrogen

testosterone is awesome. like if people see me as chill for the most part, i have to tell you it's because i'm on T right now! it helps me not feel like absolute garbage all day long. i'm glad you've found it helps you too! take care, thanks for stopping by!

[rubus-yunnion]

Quick Davey Rennick doodles + health update

Hey everyone, my hand is feeling a lot better now and is healing fast, but I unfortunately had to leave the discord because of my own very personal reasons. Nothing against anyone at all, it's just health issues that I've been dealing with for 8 years now. I've gotten a lot of support from friends and I appreciate them for being so understanding and I'm hoping to see a doctor next week about getting some antidepressants, I'll also be going through a lot of testosterone therapy since now I feel like its the time to continue with my transitioning.

In the meantime I've been doodling Rennick since he's been a very big comfort of mine for the past couple of days along with Gibbo, Muir and Innes. These beautiful screenshots are from @kuvastei

Screenshots:

Thank you to everyone who's stuck around for so long during these troubling times, I've finished off your doodle requests and now all I really want to do is sleep (since its been 4 weeks since I've last slept)

Now I'll go rest, take care everyone ^^

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hi! this is kind of a sex-adjacent question but i thought you/your followers might have knowledge: i’m on testosterone for trans reasons but currently due to convoluted life circumstances am having trouble getting my prescription refilled/can’t see my doctor about it; do you have any idea what effects/timeline of changes i’m likely to experience? i’ve tried googling but not had much luck

hi anon,

luckily I hang out with a lot of people on T and almost all of them have gone off it for a time due to convoluted life circumstances of their own.

the biggest change is there your period is likely to come back, so sorry in advance about that. many people report that their period coming back when they go off T is one of the most brutal cycles they ever have, which is for sure something to look out for. the change in the hormonal composition in your body can also cause painful mood swings, the same as trying out new antidepressants might do.

beyond that, you'll stop seeing growth caused by testosterone - you won't be seeing much more new body hair or bottom growth, you won't be gaining more muscle, your voice won't be getting any deeper, etc. but the changes you've seen so far won't go away over night. over a long time you might find some parts of your body looking and feeling a little more like they did before testosterone, but exactly how long that will take varies HUGELY from person to person.

anyone who has firsthand experience going off T, pls feel free to chime in with your own experiences!

[certifiedsexed]

transmasc bottoms in the crowd Help. how do y’all deal with vaginal atrophy from t (tis a common side effect). Because of my antidepressants I need a lot of stimulation to get off, and I keep getting too in to it and hurting myself even with lube 😭

Have you tried topical estrogen, Anon? That's a very common treatment for vaginal atrophy, especially when its caused by testosterone. So are general vaginal creams!

It might be a good idea to talk to your doctor about a prescription for topical estrogen or some other med, as well as checking out over-the-counter vaginal creams/moisturizers.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions, Anon. <3

[shamebats]

It's a weird idea that I've been rotating in my head in a while but I do feel like I'm in a way a case study against the idea that if society wasn't as gendered, there wouldn't be any trans people.

Despite the society I grew up in having been misogynistic & patriarchal, my own family & the school system were actually surprisingly not that gendered. My parents were fairly autistic themselves, my mom was pretty butch in a rural slavic woman way (never really wore skirts or dresses, makeup or cared that much about her appearance, she had work to do) and I was a defiant child, so they'd mostly just let me do my own thing. I forbade my mom from buying clothes for me without my input fairly young, so I could pick my own clothes and dress however I liked. I was about as likely to dress in a more feminine way as any boy because I knew that everyone including my teachers would've made weird comments about it if I came to school in a skirt. I had a little brother and we were treated fairly equally, we were even abused & neglected in the same ways (yay, equality!).

My best friend growing up was a neighbors' boy and we spent most of our time together getting dirty, trying not to get lost in the forest and climbing tall trees. Nobody ever told me I wasn't supposed to do "boyish" things. But at the same time, my neighbor's grandma also taught us both how to embroider and sew on buttons and we were way more into it than his sisters. At school, I was only friends with girls.

For the first like 3 years of school, we all (girls & boys) had gym class together and even got changed together in the classroom, I think it was because we didn't have any dressing rooms at that school, and nobody thought it was weird.

Adults drilled into me that I needed to study so I could go to university because I was smart and that was what was the plan for me. The fact that I was a girl didn't have any influence on that. Sure, I was told I'd want kids eventually, but boys were told the same thing and nobody ever made me feel like motherhood was the main thing I needed to aim for in life.

I didn't really think about my gender much until puberty hit. To this day, most of my dysphoria comes from my body — my breasts, my uterus, menstruation, the fact that I could get pregnant, the shape of my body. Thankfully, not wanting children in your teens & 20s was also very normal & expected in my culture and birth control was free while I was a student.

At work, my bosses were always about 50/50 men and women. Right now I have a male superior but his boss is a woman and we're the only men in our team. We're paid fairly because we're in a union, but even pre-transition I was always paid well. I never felt like I would've been better off at work if I'd been a man.

My partner always liked that I was a tomboy and never put pressure on me to be more feminine. We had some issues with equal division of chores at the beginning but we've been pretty 50/50 for a while now and we've always had separate bank accounts and our own savings.

We've also known for a long time that we don't want children, so I was never looking at a future where I'd be sacrificing myself for others in the way most cis straight women do. In fact, my partner quit his job & moved countries for my sake.

Despite all of this, I still prefer being a man. Not much has changed for me socio-economically. If I'd stayed in my home country, I would've basically just gained transphobia as an issue. But I moved to a more accepting place so even that isn't as bad. My partner turned out to be supportive and is very much happy with me being his boyfriend now, so not even that aspect of my life changed since transitioning. I was very lucky.

I love being a man. Being on testosterone makes me feel like my body is finally mine and I've been riding the high of a much improved mental state since day 1 of starting T. I can only describe it like "what antidepressants wish they could do".

So if society wasn't gendered at all. If gender didn't exist and if misogyny wasn't real. If biology was the only thing that'd differ between people? Yeah, I'd still want T, top surgery & a hysterectomy. I'd still be a transsexual, and I'm pretty sure I'd still want to be a man.