Tears and fears

[sweet-sunrise.livejournal.com]

Every month...around this lovely time....when my moods begin to swing....I become highly irrational. Every time, around this time, I try and break up with my bf...quit my job...and other such things. I get extremely emotional. Does anyone's elses period have this affect on them? Is there anything to do about the emotional part of your cycle?

Comments

Emotional Tides

[nysidra.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... typically the only emotional part of my cycle that I can really relate to is my increased sexual appetite - I'm not typically and all around horny girl - but... during that time I can be.

Congrats for not following through with the intense irrational cravings. But...it could prove to be constructive.

I would write down the reasons you'd want to quit your friend/job/or any other endeavor. Write it all on a peice of paper in detail and tuck it away for 2 weeks. Then open up what you wrote then and evaluate with a clear mind. The intense emotions may prove to be a time when you can speak honestly and passionately about how you feel - and later you can rationally decide why you felt that way in the first place.

As a friend once told me - a woman's menstrual causes moments of great inspiration and creativity...and at the worst times - great pain and confusion.

Just some ideas....

~ Bianca

[ex-terimom417.livejournal.com]

My entire family hides from me when they hear the growling begin. Granted, I'm an emotional person to start with, but that hormone surge makes me downright irrational. Worse, I *know* I'm being off the wall.

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

Yes! It's twenty times worse than any of the physical symptoms (I'm lucky, those are always relatively minor)--get very depressed, irrational, surges of rage, bursting into tears, panic attacks, paranoia, the whole nine yards. If I could get rid of all that and have the actual period last twice as long, I'd take the tradeoff in a second.

[melonaise.livejournal.com]

I definitely have this problem! Mainly with depression. My self image and confidence plumets, and the littlest thing sets me crying. Half the time I don't realize it's my cycle setting me off, and I take it too seriously. So my advice to me ;) would be to keep better track of my cycle. And it helps if my boy knows what's going on, so he's more delicate with teasing me and patient when I cry in my soup for no apparent reason. He knows not to take things seriously.

[kari.livejournal.com]

Heck yeah.
Last night I was convinced that I had to break up with my boyfriend, no matter what. I resolved to only eat leafy things and to run every day (I already broke both counts.) I had a big emotional breakdown to one of my friends. I don't think I've ever been this extreme.
But I always tend to want to make some major change in my life during or before my period.

As for what to do... I cry, let it out, and then light some candles or go running and just relax.