PMDD (TW: mention of suicide/self harm/mental illness)

I got diagnosed with pmdd this morning. I had no clue this even existed. For so long I thought my symptoms were normal. I didn’t think it was weird that every single one of my past suicide attempts had been while I was on my period, as well as every one of my self harm relapses. The absolute constant disgust I felt towards myself and the menstrual bleeding. I just assumed that everyone else struggled mentally as much I did during this time.

It feels nice to put a name to this.

I feel like now I will be able to approach my struggle with a better understanding of why it’s happing and be able to begin to find ways to cope.