I’m writing an article on menstruation and mental illness and I need some help!
Can you tell me if your menstrual cycle effects your mental illness?
Comment below!
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I’m so glad this question is being asked! My bpd symptoms are so so much worse during pms. Every month I’m convinced I need to leave my husband and run away and start a new life. After my cycle starts I’m in love! Rage anger paranoia and exaggerated emotions..the anger/ rage is the worst. Everything just feels impossibly insurmountable.
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I have bipolar 1 and borderline. When I’m fixing to start, I cry…a lot… While I’m on, I’m Pissed off the whole time. Like I get anxious and everything makes me more agitated. But when I’m done, I go back to my normal bipolar and BPD cycle.
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It is actually not bad…..Thank you Holy Jesus!
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I have PMDD and bipolar 1. I am a nightmare before I get my period and after. Sometimes I have psychosis and delusional thinking around my period because the hormones are so out of wack. I also get migraines! No birth control helps.
Even before I was diagnosed I was a nightmare around that time. Many of my female relatives are the same just without the mental illness aspect.
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Having OCD, when my period starts, it causes my hormones to rage and all sorts of weird, unwanted thoughts course through my brain. It usually levels out after a day or so, but the first few days of PMS and the first day of my cycle are usually pretty intense, mentally.
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Being on my period makes everything feel much worse. It’s like the final straw, magnifies my low mood x 100. I now get the “depo-provera” contraception injection which stops my period. Helps a lot.
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I am a raging hag of hormones right before my period. I had a meltdown at the grocery store the other day followed by a migraine and I knew, it’s about that time.
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Back when I had a period, the PMS absolutely UNHINGED me!! I had terrible rage, and nearly lost a few jobs because of it. I also had the PMS munchies like mad. Eventually, I got the Mirena IUD, which stopped my period altogether. It was a godsend.
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I don’t think so … I don’t even get bad pms. My mi definitely affects my cycle though, I’ve always been irregular, and I miss a period or periods a few times every year.
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