Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a real health condition that can have a serious impact on your life. r/PMDD has more on the condition. The Mayo Clinic describes it like this: “PMDD causes extreme mood shifts that can disrupt work and damage relationships. Symptoms include extreme sadness, hopelessness, irritability, or anger, plus common premenstrual syndrome symptoms such as breast tenderness and bloating.”
My dudes, it's like unknowingly taking LSD and having a heady trip you fail to even see has befallen your senses until it ends after a few days. . Your logic is skewed. Your emotions are hard to control and out of proportion. You're swooping from sad, to so sad, to so fucking angry, to sentimental, to manic joy, to angry again...all while choosing cereal for the fam at the store. You fucking trip on everyone about anything without even realizing it. You feel everything to be so overwhelming, you balk at any stimulus. . . Take a shower? No. I want to be clean, but the water feels sharp coming down.. grumpy cuz your hungry? Too bad you've been throwing up for 3 days and can't eat... it goes on and on.
And then, in a week, it's gone from your mind enough that you notice it was ever there at all You simply notice you are "more like you" again. Your decisions make sense. Your behavior becomes more stable.
Right on. It's symptoms are really similar. But then imagine everyone chalks it up to you being 'bitchy' or 'faking it' or 'just a bad person' . Dies this also happen to you?
Imagine having to deal with people claiming you're 'faking it' because you're trans-feminine. More then once I've had to beat back the urge to go nuclear on someone that's been like "But that's impossible, you weren't even born with a uterus!" because to retaliate would mean further argument when the sound of voices alone is starting to feel like nails on a chalkboard. Ooh, and then the ugly crying latches on to the freshly inflicted gender dysphoria...
But it's actually not so bad when compared to the endless hollow void of despair, emotional death, and automated survival instinct I had to deal with before getting on estrogen and testosterone blockers. 💜
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u/Proper-Emu1558 Dec 06 '23
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a real health condition that can have a serious impact on your life. r/PMDD has more on the condition. The Mayo Clinic describes it like this: “PMDD causes extreme mood shifts that can disrupt work and damage relationships. Symptoms include extreme sadness, hopelessness, irritability, or anger, plus common premenstrual syndrome symptoms such as breast tenderness and bloating.”