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orihhiro:

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hippie-tranquility:

PMDD really needs more awareness. I am so sick of people not understanding and thinking I’m just being over dramatic. Emotionally, pmdd takes you on a fucking roller coaster and I am not even going to get into the pain experienced once you actually get your period. The worst thing is that my pmdd starts as soon as I start ovulating and I have to try and function for two weeks with emotions I can not control. I say things and do things that I don’t mean and people do not understand that I legitimately don’t mean it and it’s not as easy as biting your tongue, it’s pretty hard to do that when you are a hysterical mess and you can’t think about anything rationally. People do not understand that the psychological symptoms of PMDD come on instantaneously, as if someone has flicked on a lightbulb and there is nothing you can do to make it stop.

I just wish the people around me who can so easily get angry at me for the way I can react could just for a second try to understand what having PMDD is like. People with PMDD beat themselves up enough because of the way they are feeling and reacting to things and we don’t need anyone else making us feel worse than what we do.

And the worst thing is that PMDD is barely recognised. When you suffer from this illness people automatically assume that you’ve just being a drama queen, but the reality is PMDD fucks with you mentally as well.

I know that I am a pain in the arse and I know I am an unpleasant person to be around when I am like this but fucking hell, I just want people to acknowledge that as tedious as being around me when I am like this is, just imagine how I am feeling. I have to not only deal with the physical and emotional effects of this illness but also have to now deal with the frustration of people who don’t understand and that fucking hurts.

And I know that every month I make posts like this saying the same thing but it is that only way I know how to handle myself, because no one else seems to get it.

Sigh i can relate :|

kooolcatsandpoems:

I just had to post this. I had to get the word out about something that needs to be more widely known and understood.

First of all,

PMS is not a joke. It is horrible and shitty to have to go through.

Second of all,

PMDD is different and is also not a joke.

Now let me explain for those who don’t know. PMDD stands for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. Let’s look at those words more closely. 

Premenstrual: Roughly speaking the two-week period leading up to a woman’s menstruation every month.

Dysphoric: Dysphoria is described as being “a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction. In a psychiatric context, dysphoria may accompany depression, anxiety, or agitation.” And can often indicate an increased risk for suicide.

Disorder:  many clinicians will describe psychiatric disorders as deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors

NOW, lets break down disorder into those 3 parts

        Deviant: thoughts or behaviors that are different from most of the rest of a given cultural context

        Distress: a subjective feeling that something is really very wrong

        Dysfunction: when a person’s ability to work, and live is clearly and often measurably impaired.

These 3 things are what the field of psychology would like to call the criteria for diagnosing someone with a mental or behavioral illness. That last one in particular. Now that was a lot of info so how about I make this all a little bit more visual…

So now that you understand what PMDD means and that it is a real diagnosable illness, lets take a look at what it means to live with it.

PMDD was added to the DSM in its most recent addition in 2013, the DSM5 lists the following 11 symptoms as characteristic of PMDD

·      Marked lability (e.g., mood swings)

·      Marked irritability or anger

·      Markedly depressed mood

·      Marked anxiety and tension

·      Decreased interest in usual activities

·      Difficulty in concentration

·      Lethargy and marked lack of energy

·      Marked change in appetite (e.g., overeating or specific food cravings)

·      Hypersomnia or insomnia

·      Feeling overwhelmed or out of control

·       Physical symptoms (e.g., breast tenderness or swelling, joint or muscle pain, a sensation of ‘bloating’ and weight gain)

Speaking as someone who has been diagnosed with this by an actual doctor, I can say that PMDD is the hardest thing I have ever had to deal with, when I am not in the premenstrual period I am constantly thinking about how far away from it I am. I plan things around it because I can, because it comes every month like clockwork. All I can do is try and enjoy my self for the two weeks every month when I am not in absolute hell. And when it comes, everything is a struggle. I have to force myself to go to class, force myself to talk to people, force myself to shower, brush my teeth and do anything other than pull myself out of crying fits and into numbness, out of anxiety attacks and into the temptation to self harm. 

After it is all over I try and move on and recover and live my life to the fullest until it comes back but that is all I can hope for. A half life.

So let me reiterate, PMDD is not ajoke. If those symptoms or my testament hit a little too close to home, please share your concerns with a doctor and get a formal diagnosis and treatment. And for everyone else, all I ask is that you spread awareness and try to think twice the next time you think about accusing a girl of PMSing because ever since 2013 this has been a bona fide mental illness. We as a society can not claim that we are working towards reducing the stigma on mental illnesses if we are only doing so for a select few on a list of many.

Please reblog and spread awareness.

Hoping this will educate some passerbys, it sucks that most ppl don’t even know wat pmdd is, makes my struggles feel invisible :/