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My male therapist is very understanding of my period weeks! Hormones play a part in our mental health and I know I forget that sometimes.
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Y’all are right. I feel guilty for struggling so much when it’s “just” PMS and so many other women just power through it. But...that’s ok. I’m glad they can do that! And it’s ok if I can’t. And it isn’t “just” PMS. It’s PMS and it’s hard and that’s ok. ...that’s the message I’m trying to accept right now lol
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Definitely not a “power through thing” :). But at least for me, knowing what and when to expect it made the symptoms easier to manage.
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I’ve struggled a lot with PMDD and PMSing, for me the thing that helped tremendously was continuously taking my birth control and skipping the sugar pills. I’m not sure what your situation is exactly, but this may be something you could ask your doctor about. I’m sorry you had a rough week, i would definitely start planning self care during that week, if you add things you enjoy to do that week that will work with your PMS it could be a way to help make you look forward to it and help divert the thought of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Hope this helps a little and today goes better😌
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I think the benefit of being able to have that awareness that the anxiety and snappiness is PMS and not going to last forever and not totally reasonable, DEFINITELY outweighs the chance of it being a self fulfilling prophecy. I'm way more able to get my emotional state, and at least my behaviour, under control when I remember that it's PMS. If you don't want to deal with the anxiety of knowing it's PMS week and worrying how you're going to feel, it's still good to get into a mental habit of checking a calendar to see if that's why when you're feeling really shitty.
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If you have s fitbit, you can track it in the app calendar along with symptoms and that way it's not a calendar you actually look at but can refer to. There are other apps for period tracking too. It's not a bad idea to track your cycle even if just to understand when to plan things. I dont like to plan beach trips for example on that week. I mean I will, but if I can choose a different time, I prefer that for example.
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Thank you, everyone!
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Period tracking with an app always worked well for me. It always helped me expect and manage my PMS symptoms better than if I thought there was a legit reason for them. “Just my period” made it easier.
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I think its a good idea. I have always done that.
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Yeah? Do you give yourself permission to cancel on people that week? I have such a hard time cancelling on people.
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@Alyosha Yes, I try to set healthy boundaries and be extra kind to myself.
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Hi all it’s been a bit since I’ve posted. I’ve been doing ok ish Today has been weird, idk if it’s cuz I upped my vyvanse to 20mg and it’s making me anxious or if everything is just colliding rn It feels like idk myself anymore. I’ve been flipping between ROCD, soocd and tocd the last couple of days/weeks. Rn I just feel horrible and idk why but I’ve been on my period for 11 days now. My period usually lasts 7. When I’m not on birth control. I’ve been on birth control since October of last year and hadn’t had a period till coming home end of April/early may and now it’s back again. I’ve been ranting to chat gpt (Ik it’s bad, I just didn’t know who to turn to) Rn I’m just really in my head about my gender and I’m anxious and crying and I just don’t feel good. Context for tonight’s thought I was doing my skincare, I’ve been trying to develop a routine cuz I’m bothered by the texture on my face and how it makes my makeup look. I’ve always felt less pretty than other girls tbh. Anywyas. As I was doing my skincare I had this thought just happen across my mind of “what if I dislike my skin and face so much cuz I’m trans? What if the reason I’ve been depressed lately is cuz I’m slowly becoming dysphoric and hating myself?” When in fact I think the issue is: I haven’t seen my bf in a month and a bjt. I’ve been bleeding for 11 days. I’m in summer classes and stressed about the comjng semester and how much work I have to do to catch up cuz I’m in pre med and I’ve been fucking slacking lately and I truly hate myself for it. I miss being hugged by my bf. I’ll admit I need a good dicking down tbh. My brother is a whole other story while I’m home. I just feel. Gross and bad. And I’m worried I’m trans. I’m worried I’m a lesbian or smthn. I’m worried I don’t love my bf deeply enough and it’s all just circling in my head a lot and I just feel like curling into a ball. I’ve always been a tomboy, I mostly hung out with boys cuz the girls never liked me. I was weird. I loved dragons. I had imaginary friends. At one point as a kid I tried a different name, I think it just didn’t fit and I grew out of that and just went back to my normal name. But now I’m worried I just repressed that. But I see a lot of girls who also went through the same thing and are also just women. But I’m so scared that I’m “not letting the TV glow” like that trend (that shit made me so anxious. I have trans friends and I love them but im scared of it for myself) I feel still sorta tomboyish but dress feminine, once in a blue moon ill dress semi masculine and now I’m worried that means im either trans or a lesbian who wants to be masc. but I’m not. I don’t think I am Idk who I am anymore. Idk if it’s just ocd or if im actually discovering smthn Im just anxious as hell tbh. So I don’t think that’s the case. I’m just sitting here. Looping in my head. My typical “drown out the noise” tv shows won’t load properly cuz of our new wifi and it’s really irritating me. What if I’ve been lying every time I try to do a “are you trans/genderfluid/non binary?” quiz. What if I’ve been lying to my bf. My friends? My family? I keep thinking to myself, if I wasn’t with my bf would I dress the same? Yes I would. I’d still wear my cardigans. My sweaters. My dresses. I’d try out new styles like I want to rn with him. I’m just worried that teying smthn would make me realize smthn about myself but I don’t think it would. Idk. I’m just in all these irrational thoughts. Jumping to conclusions Any advice would be appreciated. I mostly just needed to vent about this.
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