What is your mood like before your period?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

I'm so, so down for a few days every month. I know it's just my period but it's still shit to be so sensitive and weepy.

How do you feel before yours and do you take anything if you suffer badly?

I get really anxious and on the first day I fantasise about hurting myself, once I wanted to throw myself under traffic and once I wanted to fall out the upstairs window ‘to see how it would feel’. These urges are strong!

I used to feel awful and nearly leave DH every month. Now I take St John’s Wort, vitamin D and a strong multivitamin which helps enormously. Running helps with my general mental health too.

I hate being at the mercy of my hormones, what is the benefit of us all feeling like this every month??

I get angry over anything. Feel sorry for my partner sometimes until he annoys me by breathing too loudly.

www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/premenstrual-dysphoric-disorder-pmdd/about-pmdd/

Please, some of you need to know about PMDD as a matter or some urgency!

There is something that can be done for almost all cases of PMDD, form alleviating some of the pain to eradicating the mental health issues!

Have aread round and then call your GP and make them listen - you may have a fight on your hands there unfortunately!

I have a very short fuse days before, normally I'm fine but in the few days before everything and everyone irritates me.

Exhausted, no will power over food and a bit weepy.

I feel normal, happy if there's something to be happy about and sad if there's something to be sad about.

PMDD is a thing though, I would talk to your GP if your mood is affected badly before your period.

I didn't realise how lucky I was until reading this thread. I don't know when my period is due until it turns up. I suppose I then realise I'm more bloated than usual but that's it.

This really is shit for some of you.

Suicidal and full of rage. I have PMDD. I normally take the pill back to back so I don't have periods

I'm now perimenopausal and it's got so much worse. I used to be very volatile. Now l want to stab everyone and feel like the world is ending

This

I used to get absolutely paranoid.

Just so unbelievably sad, and like I'm no good at anything. I track my periods with an app called Hormone Horoscope which gives a daily update on hormone levels at different points of your cycle and it is incredibly accurate. I've connected with a group of women through yoga doing the same and looking at cyclical living, so each week of the cycle is a different "season" and you are better prepared for what to expect when. Doesn't really help manage it like today where I'm just on the verge of tears but at least I know I can attribute some of it at least to hormones!

I feel very sad, anxious, and sometimes break down in tears - usually about something that looks silly, like DP and DSS leaving shit lying around or not replacing a toilet roll (I usually end up ranting at them saying why the heck should I do things just because they're too lazy to take two seconds out of their busy schedules to do them?)

DP has actually in the past said 'is it that time of the month again?' as he knows what I get like at that time.

I have explained to him that my reactions to their selfish behaviour might only come out at that time of the month, but that's only because my tolerance levels drop, and I fail to hold my tongue as well as I do the rest of the month. Their behaviour is still selfish the other three weeks, it's just that I manage not to rant about it.

I get angry, frustrated and upset about things that usually wouldn't bother me. As soon as I start bleeding it's like an emotional release and I'm fine.

And I start arguments with my DH over nothing and can't help it even though I know I'm being irrational.

When I was on the pill I would have a raging temper, be utterly depressed, hate my husband and my life and wish I was dead

Now I’m not on the pill I am irritable, hungry and cry at silly things. I’ll take that over the above any day

Not sure how this works, thought the pill would be one constant hormone but obviously not!

I get angry very easily and feel irritated by everyone, especially my kids which makes me feel increasingly guilty and then I feel down too!! I actually hate being a woman and I feel sorry that my daughter is going to have to go through it.

I’m grumpy AND also clumsy (I bump into doors, stub my toe and generally hurt myself).

A bit crazy to be honest. Irrational, tearful, argumentative. All good eating habits go out of the window and I probably drink more alcohol than usual. I also do a LOT of moaning. I'm 52 and its showing no signs of stopping

I may have an unreasonable "hysteria" a couple of days before, this is still physiology. And who and how copes with this is also interesting ...

CD20 today and in an actual psycho.

Irritable and argumentative. Mainly at DH.
We usually end up in a petty argument. Poor thing.

I once read that ‘in progesterone truth’
Meaning that pms gives you permission to let rip and speak your truth. This is so true for me. I usually get out all the little things he’s done to p* me off that month

I’m 43 btw.

Tired and flat.

I either cry because I've walked into a room.

Or want to commit murder and get away with it!

Since I hit 40 I am like a lunatic. Everything winds me up for about two days before it starts, then all the anger and annoyance with everything just goes away just like that!

I can recognise it now and I just make sure I tell my partner it's not him it's me and I'm sorry for being ratty/taking the dog out for hours till it passes.