To be fed up with blardy PMT

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It brings out the worst in me.

Mardy, impatient cow who shouts at the kids/DH.

But also brings out all my insecurities:

I am a bad mum. Check
I am crap at my job. Check
I am a rubbish friend and wife. Check
The house is a mess. Check
I'm fat and ugly. Check

I just need to get a grip!

Is it just me?

I just get hungry.

It's not just you. Why not go see your GP? A low dose of antidepressants might help.

I've welcomed it back into my life after years of depo, pregnancy and BFing. What fun. Crying about blinking everything.

Me too. It makes me so depressed, sensitive and anxious. Haven't found much that helps so watching this thread closely.

I used to get terrible PMT.

Then I discovered there is no underlying physiological cause for it.

I looked for alternative explanations for my tiredness, irritability etc and found them.

I share this with the intention if being helpful.

hermoine... please guide a light on mine it has been HORRENDOUS
since birth of twins / tubes tied

thats if you don't mind :)

Any help would be great, I have worked on my diet. exercise and self esteem ...

Rodgette, there is no physiological reason why women would get PMT. The assumption is it's cyclical hormones, but women on the pill report it and their hormones are under control. Men have just as pronounced monthly hormone cycles without experiencing the same symptoms.

And yet without this "late luteal phase dysphoric disorder" is classified I the appendix of the DSM IV (the diagnostic manual for psychological disorders).

I don't think it's OK that women can be classified as insane for one week out of four with no known cause, so I asked myself if there was another explanation, and there always was another plausible reason why i was tired/hungry/irritable. But I had learned to blame PMT.

I haven't experienced a PMT symptom since (though I had physical symptoms like bloating like a beached whale).

I don't know what symptoms you are experiencing, but Is it possible that having twins has made you tired, stressed, hungry etc? Is it just that once a month you call that PMT. Is it easier for your partner to explain you being irritable etc by dismissing it as PMT?

I hope this might be helpful