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[cleanlikegod.livejournal.com]

I'm new also.
Does anyone here have PMDD (Pre Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder)
It's kind of like Depression, but it only sets in right before or during your period?
Just wondering- I tend to have it a lot, and just wanted to know.

Thanks!

Lots of Love
Jessicka

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Never been diagnosed...

[jennlyle.livejournal.com]

I've never been diagnosed, but that sounds like my experience for the large part.

What I experience (which I'm totally thankful for in comparison to what most other women seem to experience, and always thought it was more of a quirk than anything else) is that about 20 minutes before I start, I hit an all time emotional spike low. The most insignifant thing will set me to tears, or sometimes I'll just cry for the hell of it. Then, 20 minutes later... sure enough... I've started. Usually after I've started, I get by just fine by attributing any other emotional lows to my period. I'm also fortunate in that my flow lasts for about three days, and I'm usually back to my happy self after that.

Is that what its like?

Re: Never been diagnosed...

[cleanlikegod.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much how it is, except mine tends to last all day before, and like the first 2 days during my period.
Cry cry cry, sob sob sob. anything and everything sucks. *shudders just thinking about it*

They have a new pill, Serafem, which is supposed to help, but you have to take it EVERY SINGLE DAY!
And, what they don't tell you in the commercials is that the main ingredient in it is the same that's in Prozac!

Lots of Love,
Jessicka

Not ever ready to become the next Prozac poster child...

[jennlyle.livejournal.com]

Don't they have a pill for everything now? I'd like them to come out with a pill for cancer, AIDS, or the common cold personally... some things aren't that easy, or at least I understand that the biology in those aren't.

I don't think I'm so severe to where I need treatment like that though. Its only when I don't know why I'm upset over something when I feel out of control. Sometimes if I forget what time of the month it is, well, its only 20 minutes of horror, and then I know =) After that, attributing the emotional low to that onset logically usually puts me at ease. I will admit, knowing myself so well didn't come easy, but I'm glad I've gotten to know myself and can be the master of my emotions =)

[melopene.livejournal.com]

I have it... I basically spend 2 weeks of every month as a severe manic-depressive train wreck.

The first time my mom and I saw the Seraphim ad on TV, we looked at eachother and knew. I've been going through it for years... and it affects my life significantly enough that I've considered a hysterectomy.

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's severe enough to quality as out-and-out dysphoria, but I do know my psychological symptoms are always much worse than physical...at least a week of crying over nothing, trigger temper, attention span of a gnat, insomnia (on top of exhaustion), panic attacks, feeling worthless and/or like everything I try to do is a pile of crap. If I could get rid of all that and the tradeoff was having the actual menstrual period be twice as long, I'd do it in a damn second.

[waterlove.livejournal.com]

my period symptoms seem to say i have that too...

im happy one second, screaming the other. everything is so sad (for no reason!) and i sleep ALOT.

like right now, it hasn't started yet, and i can't even watch tv b/c everything makes me cry! and i miss my boyfriend (which i always do), but for some reason i seem to be crying over it. ugh, im a mess!