I just recently was diagnosed with PMDD and put on Zoloft. I can only tell you all that after reading all of your posts on this matter I am so thankful I broke down and asked for help. I honestly thought I had just grown into a mean, horrible 42 year old women and this was just going to be my life from now on. I knew I think deep down that it was related to hormones and started tracking my moods throughout the month but had fear that if I actually said something to my doctor about how severe my mood swings were that he would think I was nuts. Well I was nuts, I had re-occuring thoughts of all things horrible, I would snap at any and all who did not agree with me, and although I have the most wonderful boyfriend of 3 years I was convinced I would be better off without him. I honestly believed that he knew when life was becoming too much for me (which was once a month for two and a half weeks at a time) and would purposily do things just to me off. Yeah right like he really wanted to hear me one more time tell him he was a (fill in the blank) .
So I finally took the plunge and told the doctor that I dont like myself. That I get so angry I feel I can hurt someone and although no one would ever had call me a pushover pre-craziness, they never would have called me a bully, and that was exactly what I became.
Anyways we experimented with my BC pills as I thought they were the culprit, went off them for a month and no actually became worse without them, so I went back on for a month till my check up w/Doctor and started taking St. Johns wort which helped some (I was controlable at least) and asked the doctor for something anything...that's when the Zoloft entered my life and for me it worked. Please, please, please if you are suffering from this do not be afraid to seek out help, my ego for five years would not allow me to seek it, and my life is so much better right now becaue I did.