I Can't Seem To Even Talk About My Own Female Experiences
Submitted April 25, 2021, 6:31 a.m. by Next_Sleep_6250If this is not the place for this, please feel free to delete.
I suffer from PMDD--this PMS, but to the point of needing serious clinical interventions. I am basically incapacitated two-three days before ovulation each month. This month, that period is in advance of two very important professional deadlines. This, for me, is absolutely connected to the struggle of being a professional woman. This is a problem on 50% of humanity could possibly have. This experience has been part of my fundamental understanding of womanhood.
However, every time I have tried to share this experience with female friends I get shut down for connecting the experience to womanhood, because that understanding of my own experience is apparently not inclusive enough! The only people who have really listened to me are my two best friends, both men (one gay and one straight, if it matters). But they also acknowledge that this is something they can't ultimately get because it is a "female problem."
I just feel so isolated and like I have to walk on eggshells when talking about this this that has so much control and power in my life. And it fucking sucks.
That's awful! What sort of clinical interventions are needed? Why before ovulation? Are periods also bad? People hating on you for not being inclusive enough in your condition boggles my mind, it really does
The best science says it is a reaction to progesterone--which peaks at and immediately after ovulation. SSRs and hormone treatments sometimes help, but not quite yet for me (though I am hopeful we will land on the right treatment!). In the meantime, I just want to talk about it without being called a "menstrator" or "uterus haver".
Are they all secretly trans widows??? I don’t understand this irrational behavior from otherwise reasonable women.