I am just remembering when I was younger and how my period was the boss of a lot of behaviors.
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No I never had a problem with the hormones with mood or irrationality. I’ve seen other people especially when I was a teenager and my peers would get a little crazy when it was their time of the month.
I always knew when it was coming on-my mood would just dip.
I always become depressed around my period. It makes me feel out of control, I become a risk of suicidal behaviour. I find Angus cactus helps.
Sorry for the abrupt reply. I’m not very well right now.
Take care,
Meg,
My symptoms tend to rise when I’m on it.
Nope. I remember finding it really strange when my friends talked about their mood swings and cravings and stuff. I never experienced any behavioral changes at all. I did get TERRIBLE cramps until I started going on birth control though. That was no fun.
Also as an interesting note, PMS is known as a “cultural affliction.” In non-westernized countries that have never heard of it, women don’t experience the same thing at all, and have no idea what you’re talking about. Learned that in my abnormal psychology class!
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Hope you feel better soon, Meg. Anything you want to post about?
Am I allowed on this thread?
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The period might make us a little crazy about men… so, yes, you are allowed.
Hope I’m not out of line here. Also hope you will forgive me if I am. Have heard it often of many of the fairer sex suffering more symptoms during their cycle with many of the mental illnesses. Seems the consensus is some of the birth control pills seem to help a great deal with it. So talk to your GP on it. I’ve also no idea why doctors don’t bring that up more often.
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i tend to get very irritable and crave chocolate but as far as m.i. symptoms? never correlated the two so i have no idea…will have to look into it. i know the voices aren’t triggered by it as sometimes they’ll be quiet for months but i don’t know about my thought processes. hmmmm good question chords.
It’s not unusual; hormones play a big part in mood regulation so that time of the month affects many women negatively - with or without existing mental illness. There’s even a term (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) for when those symptoms are more severe. As women, we tend to be the gender that suffers from hormonal fluctuations more often (thanks, biology) but men aren’t immune; low testosterone in men can produce similar symptoms; anger, irritability, depression.
The pill can help - some women swear that if they had not starting taken the pill, they would have ended up divorced. Others say it worsened their mood…I’m on the fence, it doesn’t do much for me either way.
Generally, though - provided your symptoms are not so severe that they really impact your life; it’s just a normal part of the process that comes and goes.
Good post. I get really bad PMS, I can’t think straight and I get argumentative with family members over trivial things.
Never had any problems that could be blamed for my moods.
Lately it seems that heading into menopause has intensified my emotions the day before “auntie Flo” arrives.
I don’t do it now, but, as a teen, I was all over the place emotionally during my period. Now I just get tired.