I've suffered from 'proper' depression before, so I know enough to be able to distinguish between just feeling a bit low and the actual near-physical pain of true depression. And increasingly the latter is what i get for 2 or 3 days before my period. I know it doesn't sound like much - 2 or 3 days is nothing compared to what a lot of people on here go through and what i went through myself for many years in the past) but it is pretty debilitating. I can barely work, I avoid going out, avoid speaking to people, all I want to do is crawl under the duvet and sleep...
It does seem to be getting much worse as I get older (I'm 33, and though I've definitely had a touch of teariness and lack of focus in the past, it's this last year or so that it keeps developing like this).
Does anyone have any advice? Herbal (?) supplements that could help? Anything??!
My DH tries to be understanding (he was AMAZING while I was suffering from depression) but he honestly doesn't seem to understand the feeling of overwhelming despair that is caused seemingly by 'nothing' but my hormones. Oh, and I'm unutterably vile to him on these days as well, poor sod, which doesn't make me feel any better. At the time I can't even explain why I'm doing it