I've been seriously considering estrogen/anti-T HRT, and reading other people's experiences the mental effects seem the most appealing to me as opposed to the physical side (not that those seem unappealing tho). I'd love to hear people's experiences here of how HRT has affected their emotions/cognition/sensory perception/connection to the cosmos/etc.
To seperate out the effects of HRT with other things going on at the same period is difficult but generally I do believe seeing my body feminize and feel more "me" helped a lot with confidence when dealing with others (although dealing with men now comes with extra fear, but that's cause dudes suck too often) and in general care about my body. Before I struggled with taking showers or brushing my teeth even once a week and now I can do on a daily basis because I actually have some care about what I see.
My body's sex drive basically died but that's also because I am asexual and I believe my sexuality was mostly just an outlet for dysphoria and gender expression when I didn't have one before rather than anything else so YMMV a lot for that.