[Myranda]

Spironolactone could bring a lot of mental relief. The testosterone is the one that disrupts your brains. It's a lot more interesting in your case to look at reducing testosterone instead of increasing estrogen. A dose of let's say 75 mg Spironolactone is not high but would be high enough to reduce your T to 50% of what it was.

Upping the dose did make me feel better. Development didn't go faster but it reduced my anxiety when my E dose got upped. 

Low dose hormones are a tricky thing if you still need to present as male. They will trigger the desire to go further and before you know you're full-time and post-op in a matter of a year or two.

An AA could bring relief on its own I suppose, though Low T without a sufficiently higher E could have other "complications" other than decreased libido or erections.  Osteoperosis and lack of energy are the two big ones that come to mind.

It constadntly annoys the hell out of me when people say that starting HRT will triggers desires to go further and further, and then before you know Full-time and Post Op.

While that may be true for many Trans people, it is not applicable to all Trans People.  Right now, I am fully in the later category, and as are several people on these forums as well as on Susan's Place.  Hell, I have gone from 2mg Estradiol to start to 4mg of Estradiol and 50mg Spirolocatone and I still have ZERO desire or interest to go full time or get GRS/GCS.  And if one or both of these things change, it will not be a direct result of Start and increasing hormones, but rather because I arrived a much better understanding of my Self.