My depression is so severe around my period. Day to day I am a happy person but leading up to my period I’m irritable, angry, sad and overall depressed. I have crying spells that just happen out of nowhere for no real reason, usual situations make me upset. It’s so hard. I don’t have bad physical pain with my period but the emotional toll of it is TOO MUCH to bare and might end up driving me crazy.

I’m crying as I type this post, nobody understands how bad it is during my period. It feels like a curse. I don’t think I have the mental capacity to keep going through this. I feel so bad about my period, and I try not to but it’s so hard. Nobody understands but my period makes me hate myself so much. I feel disgusting, worthless, and depressed around my period. I don’t know what to do, every cycle it just gets worse & worse. I try my hardest to keep positive, to keep myself busy & hydrated but it doesn’t work.

Anytime I tell anyone it’s like they just say “get over it, all women have to deal with a period” but it’s just not that simple. I’m truly lost and have nowhere else to vent