Feeling extremely overwhelmed (but it’s nuanced)
So basically my past couple of weeks has been a whirlwind. I had my egg cracked years and years ago when I was 16 but this March I had my 23rd birthday coming up and decided enough was enough and began hrt. I was identifying mainly as like a non-binary agender person for the past 7 years, and as soon as I started experiencing changes and really considered how it felt to express femininity (a thing I was always too scared to do) I kinda snowballed out of control and have come out to my whole group of friends and I’m in the process of telling family. I always thought I’d never do voice training or dress femme or wear make up or change my name but in the past 2 weeks I’ve gone from disliking the idea of all of these to doing them and enjoying them and I’ve kinda never been happier. I’m now just feeling SOOOO overwhelmed, not necessarily a bad emotion, but just feel like I’m getting eaten up by everything. Every step I’ve been taking has felt so impossibly good, I never ever expected I could love myself in this way, but I’m just not sure I can sustain all of this emotional energy.
Tl;dr: I’ve been extremely excited and happy about expressing my new-found femininity but I’ve been experiencing a bit too much intense emotion for 2 weeks straight
Anybody experience something like this? Should I be slowing down or something?
Posted May 5, 2025, 12:39 AM UTC