The psychological effects of hormone treatment are under estimated by the medical professionals, this was made worse by the fact that I had no symptoms of impotence or sexual problems at all. If hormone treatment was described as chemical castration patients would be more prepared for the effects and could seek help from the relevant professionals.
Try to talk to a male practitioner who will understand what you are going through, though sympathetic female doctors are as likely to understand as a male doctor does the effects breast cancer.
Seek help from professionals earlier rather than later, I had never had any form of depression and was unable to talk to anyone. It is a man thing but the sooner you make contact with a counsellor or your GP the better.
Fatigue and decreasing sexual adequacy led to depression very gradually at first and later extremely.
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Hormone treatment is much more harsh than I expected and affected me in more ways than that I thought it would.
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