Has steroid use affected your mental health?

[Deleted member 127229]

Good thread, glad I found this one.

I feel steroid use has changed my personality a tad, but not significantly.

I've become much more assertive, more controlling of situations, more goal driven...losing ot 2nd place is not an option. I challenge people more, if I disagree with you I'll be sure to tell you. I'm a LITTLE confrontational. I'm not afraid to tell someone to stfu if they're being loud in public or irritating me. I do get a tad paranoid, especially on 19nors. But I'm a naturally paranoid and dustrusting person. I believe this may be related to PTSD from my military service. I've realized tren makes me too aggressive and paranoid, so I stopped taking it. Npp/deca I don't get the aggressive behavior...just a bit more paranoid and anxious.

 

[Ridethelightningbarefoot]

Mostly when Im on cycle. All steroids act on your adrenal axis. So with androgens it increases the chances of you going into fight mode. So you have a stronger response more frequently

 

[buzzingonaas]

Was talking to my girlfriend about this the other day. Ever since starting TRT and then B&C i’ve noticed that while I don’t get angry at my girl, any interaction I have with any guy, if I feel like he is checking me, looking at my gf, being disrespectful in any way, etc I don’t let it go like I used to and am very confrontational now. Again, for some reason this only happens with males. I let it go if a woman is disrespectful (unless it’s to my family or gf) and remain very calm in arguments with my gf

 

[borkies]

I am super low key, and I don't start shit - and I'm fairly "gentle giant". But man when I am on blast and I am confronted, I greet that shit head-on. Basically I don't seek confrontation and I don't cause confrontation, but if I'm met with confrontation I'm like BRING IT LETS DO THIS.

Also tren brings out the freaky sexual tastes that I wouldn't normally entertain. I used to get a bit jealous on it too but I don't do that crap anymore. No more tren.

 

[fike]

My mental health? Na, I’m good, but a motherfucker better not fuck with my wife or kids, because I will lose my shit in the most controlled, validated manner ever. .Yeah, I’m talking to you Mrs. Broadhead. Let my daughter come home talking about you forcing those kids to watch kidz bop 159 or whatever it is first thing in the morning with the tranny transitioning 12 year old child on more test than me right putting in make-up and making her feel all cringed out and weird before school even starts, and you are gonna have problems.

Oh, and Caleb, I don’t care if you are 13, try that shit with my autistic son again. I’ll do more than just talk to you again, bitch. Still waiting on that call from your daddy.

But, yeah, I’m a perfectly sane despite my AAS use. Just slightly more protective and a tad more assertive. My wife likes it though.

 

[jJjburton]

I feel better…always a mess mentally, but at least now im bigger lol.

 

[fike]

I feel better…always a mess mentally, but at least now im bigger lol.

@jJjburton, bro, this fucking pec injury is what’s making me a mess mentally…..I’ll shoot you a message tomorrow and tell you about it. Not good news about the shoulder, but I do have some more good news to share with you.

All seriousness with the mental aspects, though, I’m really a better person and better man since I began using AASs. They haven’t turned me into a raging lunatic and I really am a better man for my family, myself, and my community. Definitely more assertive and I don’t put up with dumb shit or things I don’t believe, but I’m a good role model and father to my kids and good husband to my wife.

 

[fike]

My mental health? Na, I’m good, but a motherfucker better not fuck with my wife or kids, because I will lose my shit in the most controlled, validated manner ever. .Yeah, I’m talking to you Mrs. Broadhead. Let my daughter come home talking about you forcing those kids to watch kidz bop 159 or whatever it is first thing in the morning with the tranny transitioning 12 year old child on more test than me right putting in make-up and making her feel all cringed out and weird before school even starts, and you are gonna have problems.

Oh, and Caleb, I don’t care if you are 13, try that shit with my autistic son again. I’ll do more than just talk to you again, bitch. Still waiting on that call from your daddy.

But, yeah, I’m a perfectly sane despite my AAS use. Just slightly more protective and a tad more assertive. My wife likes it though.

@I6JQdr06 That was an obvious tongue-in-cheek joke and dark humor joke dude. Do you need a hug and a safe space? I’m always here for you….if you know what I mean.

 

[fike]

I just want to know if @BigTomJ has always been such an asshole or if the juice has exasperated this quality of his personality. Tom, I ask this with nothing but love and for the purpose of sheer entertainment, because I enjoy seeing you piss the weak minded off, and I’m just singling you out and kind of picking on you, because I see you as being one of the more abrasive brothers on here. No disrespect meant at all. How has AAS usage affected your mental state over the years?

 

[BigTomJ]

I just want to know if @BigTomJ has always been such an asshole or if the juice has exasperated this quality of his personality. Tom, I ask this with nothing but love and for the purpose of sheer entertainment, because I enjoy seeing you piss the weak minded off, and I’m just singling you out and kind of picking on you, because I see you as being one of the more abrasive brothers on here. No disrespect meant at all. How has AAS usage affected your mental state over the years?

You got me confused with someone else?
I'm a peach.

 

[BigTomJ]

I just want to know if @BigTomJ has always been such an asshole or if the juice has exasperated this quality of his personality. Tom, I ask this with nothing but love and for the purpose of sheer entertainment, because I enjoy seeing you piss the weak minded off, and I’m just singling you out and kind of picking on you, because I see you as being one of the more abrasive brothers on here. No disrespect meant at all. How has AAS usage affected your mental state over the years?

On a serious note, I have struggled with different mental health struggles in the past.
Namely depression in my teens and early 20s.
Given that a lot of that was likely a result of being naturally low t and catastrophic bad sleep. (Average 5 hours a night, and first set of bloodwork in my mid 20s came back clinically hypogonadal, but I spent years trying to correct this through healthier lifestyle choices rather than trt at that age).


60% of my problems went away when I corrected my lifestyle for better sleep and nutrition and took my training more seriously. The other 40% went away when I did my first cycle at 28. Despite my best efforts after correcting my sleep and lifestyle best result I ever got at that time was like 350 total test. So hopping on cycle at that point immediately irradiated the remainder of my instabilities, clearly caused by the hypogonadism.



Tldr, my mental health has improved by an order of magnitude by adopting the body building lifestyle and getting in trt.

 

[fike]

Tldr, my mental health has improved by an order of magnitude by adopting the body building lifestyle and getting in trt.

You and me both, bro. I’m not the biggest or most cut guy, but the discipline associated with living a healthy lifestyle and correcting my mental and character defects, as well as my physical insufficiencies 100 percent saved my life. It help give me the wherewithal to take responsibility for my life and make those positive self-improvements.

I didn’t start out correcting these deficits with AASs, but they definitely gave me a boost when I did begin that journey. I’m glad I waited until I was 31 and in a solid place mentally and physically to start using them.

 

[Someguy7]

I get road rage easier. It's bad

 

[AbstractMind]

peOpLE bEttEr rUn wHeN I sEe red iT aiNt gOnna eNd well

 

[SemiSharma]

I get where you're coming from. I noticed a shift, too.

 

[Ridethelightningbarefoot]

Ok so Ive had to come completely off recently. I started over 6 years ago and went through some shit so Im definetly happier now but I feel so much different. I feel less stressed and its just easier for me to stay happy. I conduct relationships better with the people around me. I guess Im just one of those people whose mental health goes in the toilet while on gear

 

[nightprowler7]

Ok so Ive had to come completely off recently. I started over 6 years ago and went through some shit so Im definetly happier now but I feel so much different. I feel less stressed and its just easier for me to stay happy. I conduct relationships better with the people around me. I guess Im just one of those people whose mental health goes in the toilet while on gear

Did you come off completely? No trt?

 

[Mishka]

I guess so, I am suspicious by nature - on Tren or Deca I get 10 times more suspicious lol

 

[Ridethelightningbarefoot]

Did you come off completely? No trt?

I came off completely until my levels were sub natural then started hcg. So im currently on hcg. I dont think i fully understood the damage i had done to myself and the people around until i came off and got in a different frame of mind

 

[nightprowler7]

I came off completely until my levels were sub natural then started hcg. So im currently on hcg

That sucks man. Probably going to lose a lot of gains