#pmddsupport

[living-with-pmd]

Comic from the Washington Post

[thegraceofganja]

@pmddsucks on Instagram

[the-farmers-rabbit]

hey to any AFAB people who don’t have bad physical symptoms during their period but still feel like death, get checked for PMDD.

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. It’s much more common in AFAB people with ADHD. Same thing with post partum depression. the brain doesn’t give out happy chemicals well normally, so when the PMS hits, it gets worse

If you deal with fatigue, depressive episodes, bouts of sensitivity, anger, moodiness or the like, a loss in interests and/or a loss in energy during your period and/or in the week before and/or after the period, talk to your doctor. 

you aren’t alone.  it will be ok. people like you, and i promise. it is ok to feel like this. 

You will be ok.

[i-am-a-fan]

Idk what artist needs to hear this,

but hey. It’s okay if your period makes it hard to draw.

It’s okay if your period makes it difficult for you to focus.

It’s okay if you don’t feel unmotivated

It’s okay if you need to take your time.

Your WIP and your drafts will be there until you feel better.

[quillirio]

Ok i just figured out what a PMDD is and it explains a lot about how these past few months have been not so subtlety kicking me in the gut?

now im looking through the PMDD tag and suddenly my urge to scream and cry and destroy everything and then break out of my mortal flesh and be a scraggly little skeleton skittering across the ceiling with no uterus in sight makes a LOT more sense.

So like there’s other people who feel this way too??? People who also want to destroy the entire world and then crack it like an egg to make an omelette and then eat it in one sitting and then lose your appetite altogether for the next few days until finally your body decides to perform its unholy blood ritual?

This only started up for me VERY recently but damn. You people with PMDD are very strong to have held yourselves back from turning the world into an omelette. Hats off to all of you 🎉 hopefully i can be as strong as you all someday

[mybodyhateshormonechanges]

[destroyedchild]

If you would ask how I’m doing today, I would say fine cause the sun is shining and the birds are singing again. However, in a part of my mind still a though that will never disappear in any weather : I’m afraid of myself.

I’m afraid of the hearts I will break, the objects I will throw, the projects I will quit and the thoughts I will have the next time the thunder comes.

I feel like I became the queen of broken things, in a queendom where I don’t have any control.

When the sun is shining through the clouds again, all I have left to do is repair all the broken hearts, objects and thoughts once more. Although I’m strong and I believe I can fix it all, it remains uncontrollably broken in the first place.

The queen is shattered too, and as the years go by, it becomes harder and harder to glue all the broken bits together again and again.

But today I’m fine.

Losing hope may be part of the plan, but its not my end, I’m lucid enough to still remember that through all the battles I’ve come so far I’ve ended up victorious each time.

[mordellestories]

If you menstruate and this is you every month, you might have pmdd. Self-screen at iapmd.org