Seriously guys just when I think my mental health is getting back on track I get to the “5-7 days before my period” mark, and suddenly I’m a ball of depression and anxiety. I was doing SO WELL the past couple weeks and now all day all I can think is “what’s the point of anything, all I do is work and feel tired all the time and unwell constantly” and obsessing over stupid and uncontrollable things like if our freaking wedding pictures came out good enough, and if we should return these blankets we bought or not, and how we’re going to have to rework our schedules to visit if my husband’s best friend’s wife goes into labor with their baby early (they live 3-4 hours away and we were planning to visit soon after the baby was born but it’s looking like she’s going to be premature).

Anyway it’s all stuff that’s so either (1) resolvable (2) unimportant (3) out of my control anyway (4) just plain false, or any combination of those things. And I freaking KNOW it’s PMS making these things worse. But that also makes me feel like I have no escape from it, other than to just sit and wait to get my period in a few days, but I can’t even “look forward” to that because then I’ll be in pain.

Anyone else deal with this? And please what do you recommend? I feel like every time I make progress with my mental health, PMS destroys every last bit of that progress.