
Originally Posted by
melodye20
I don't think I have one of the most extreme pmdd strains, but I recently learned about it and I think it explains a lot. I am a college student, and for at least two years, the two weeks leading up to my period have been unbearable. I feel hopeless, sad, apathetic, and tear up for no reason. I feel guilty calling my own friends to go to meals with them, and I can't concentrate on my schoolwork. Sometimes I spend over an hour wandering around campus trying to find a place where I feel like studying, and today even though I was starving I debated whether or not I felt like walking the five minutes to the dining hall to eat. I don't have suicidal thoughts, but sometimes I wonder how other people would react if I were to accidentally die (such as in a car crash), which kind of scares me. I just started talking to a therapist once a week about it, but I'm not sure how well it's working, since she seems to want to find symbolic reasoning in my symptoms which just make the whole illness seem flat. I don't really know other steps that I should take if therapy doesn't work out. I don't want to take antidepressants, and I've heard mixed reviews about birth control (some have said it makes these symptoms worse). But I guess I'll see how the therapy sessions work out first.
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