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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Relative_Arm on 2023-09-09 12:34:43.

I had been doing so great for two weeks. I felt pretty confident, my mood was stable and I managed to be get stuff done: the “boring” stuff, hobbies and exercise. I felt overall happy.

This changed a couple days ago. Of course, it was my period approaching. I’m supposed to get it in 2 days and I’m not feeling great at all.

This week has basically been the opposite of the two weeks prior to that. Yesterday I got very upset and cried a lot. Suddenly, I became hyper aware of all problems in my life and all the shitty things in the world. I have been angry and irritated at people, not even known if those emotions are “real” or if my hormones are playing tricks on me.

I’ve been feeling unmotivated and tired. I have barely gotten anything done. I have not exercised. I have spent most of my days doing I don’t even know what. Scrolling TikTok probably??

It really sucks that 1/4 of the month has to be like this… I’m seriously considering “optimizing” my life and make sure that I’m more productive the rest of the month and try to find a specific routine for my “PMS week” lmao. Cause I feel like I just can not live normally the week before my period.

Does anyone else experience this and what advice do you have?? It sucks. I know that I’m probably being irrational or exaggerating, but I can’t stop it cause I can’t control my hormones and all that…