What’s the biggest mental/emotional change you experience when on your period? (If any)
- Sadness.
- Cry very easily.
- Things making me cry that would never normally bother me in the slightest otherwise.
- Very insecure and prone to anxiety. Less patience.
- Mood swings – real ups and downs. Few hours between the two!
- Lack of patience and highly emotional.
- Feel erratic and more emotional than normal – like someone’s dialled all feelings up, but especially anxiety and sadness.
- I feel gross and pretty unworthy, especially pooing on your period is the absolute worst.
- Relief.
- I become very very sad about 3-4 days before my period starts.
- The want to hibernate… sit quietly and comfortably.
- Sensitivity. All my emotions are heightened, if I feel even an ounce of sadness or joy I’m going to cry.
- Premenstrual rage and anxiety.
- I just cry a lot more, even the smallest thing could upset me.
- Get very down and depressed for a few days. Feels very real and nothing can snap me out of it.
- A lot of crying. And I think I'm a loser.
- The anxiety that comes just before you come on – it's not because of the period, it's just the way your brain feels, you feel incredibly teary, emotional, sensitive, trouble sleeping and overheating. It's rubbish!
- I suffer from very low mood.
- In the run up I can be very emotional and my anxiety/feeling of dread can be worse. It's often a relief when my period comes and I can remind myself that a lot of those negative thoughts and feelings were down to hormones.
- I don't trust my feelings.
- I just feel quite tearful and maybe a bit irritable sometimes? The worst bit for me is the migraines I get a week before – they are debilitating.
- Anger, depression, unexplained mood swings.
- More irritable and general low energy.
- Mood swings. I can go from being fine one minute to tears, anxiety and sadness the next. With small or no triggers. Zero motivation or enthusiasm to do anything.
- Feeling hungry and like I want to cry, everything is upsetting to me (I cried before because a woman on Bake Off just looked kind of embarrassed for a split-second and it just made me sad to think she felt embarrassed). I also get really bad skin breakouts.
- Leading up to it there is irritation/annoyance/frustration building into anger and even rage, then feeling sad and tearful at minor triggers, feeling sapped of energy.
- Grumpier, feel a bit down sometimes.
- I sometimes feel a bit emotional and cry easily over small things. But it doesn’t always happen, so I never know if it’s my period or that - I’m actually depressed.
- More easily upset by little things that might not usually bother me.
- I feel more anxious and want to eat everything. I try to drink tea instead.
- My character doesn't change but it definitely becomes more bold.
- Exhaustion and brain fog.
- I can feel more likely to cry a day or two before.
- Focussing on work and getting out of long meetings to change my sanitary products. Constantly worrying about leaking onto clothes, chairs, bed.
- I feel very emotional pre-period.
- Mood swings, fighting with my partner.
- I lose my confidence and feel a deep sense of doom before my period.
- A few days before, I just cry at anything and everything. I can feel tearful throughout. Sometimes I get a big libido increase during though!
- Getting it at the worst possible time when you're younger (like at a party) and feeling shame or embarrassment – we shouldn't have been conditioned to feel that way.
- More likely to cry or get upset about something in the days leading up to it.
- Emotions can intensify and I'm more sensitive to smell, sounds and negativity.
- I sometimes get depressed and tearful before my period starts. I understand this to be a drop in a certain hormone but after the first day of bleeding my mental state is fine.
- I am a bit more house-bound, like to stay close to my comfort zone.
- The 3-5 days before I start my period I have the blues.
- I feel depressed and very teary! Usually a few days later I get my period.
- Just feeling fragile, like the smallest thing could upset or annoy me.
- Biggest shift is in the 2 weeks before – a couple of days in my mood improves and I feel much lighter.
- Really bad anxiety, anger, mood swings.
- Low mood and low self esteem. Very emotional and wanting to cry a lot.
- Tiredness and lack of resilience to stress.
- I become viciously angry at inanimate objects/anyone unlucky enough to annoy me, then the next minute I could be crying, then laughing. Really erratic extremes of emotion.
- Can get brain fog sometimes, will get riled up more quickly.
- Sad, feeling a bit lost and uncertain of yourself.
- For about two days, I’m often close to tears and think very angsty thoughts.
- I get so frustrated and cross, and tend to drop things a lot which makes that worse.
- I get very emotional, borderline depressed.