Extream Emotional Feelings and Instability due to PMS

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Do any of you get severe emotional feelings and swings due to PMS?

When ever I'm on my period I'll get my PMS about around the same time. Though this time I got my PMS a little toward the end of my period, and that's normal for me. It's usually some time around my period.

But whenever I get my period I get extream emotional feelings. Mostly bad emotional feelings like extream fear, anger and sadness when normally I hardly feel any of those emotions when i'm off my period.

I'll get really sad about something that is really nothing to be sad about. Or Very scared and fearful about a certin subject and I'll continually keep thinking about it all the time.

Well, It's gotten to the point that it's really interfearing with my life and really hurting my boyfriend because he happens to be in the line of fire and it's really hard to control my feeling and behaiver.

I'm not used to having emotions like this and It's very confusing for me.

Is there any advice or solutions out there that can help me with this with out the use of medication?

I used to get extremely angry when I got my period, antidepressents helped alot

If I'm going to get depressed or anxious about something it's going to be towards the end of my pill pack (take BC pills for ovarian cists not birth control I've never even had a serious boyfriend..) and after, some months I can hardly wait to start a new pack and get my hormones back under control. Sometimes taking or increasing the dose of an anti-depression around period time can help A LOT. Since being on BC pills my PMS is not near as sever and I know exactly when to expect it whereas before I could have 3 weeks between or 1 week now I KNOW I have 3 weeks... so wonderful!

My period wasn't as bad when I was on the pill, but I went off it a few years ago.

I look for whatever will make me laugh, which then gets me in mode of getting that emotional tension out, since laughing & crying go back & forth, are physiologically similar for me.
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I get much more emotional than my usual level (which is pretty intense already), in "spells" or "moods" of extreme sensitivity, to feeling upset (mad, then sad & repeat).

I get my boyfriend to squish me, lie down on me (with clothing on, not in a sex type way)-the pressure comforts & soothes me. Or I lay across his hipbone (in a confusing perpendicular arrangement), to help with my period cramps. He copes well with my fits of snarling, crying, laughing then crying again, and so on. His acceptance & stability while I'm busy freaking out reassures me, when I feel afraid I won't ever feel better (and that I've always felt this bad).

Anyway, I don't know if something at all like this would be possible-or compatible with your senses. It's along similar lines of thought to Grandin's "squeeze machine", except that I'm not trying to avoid a hug administered by a human. The point is getting the calming effects (on some animals & for some people) of "deep pressure" touch/contact/holding-but NOT too tight.

Yes, it can range from general irritability through outbursts of rage to obsessional & irrational thoughts.

My worst trigger points are : (a) 1 week before my period, i.e. when I have PMS but haven't yet realised it, & (b) a day or two after it has started, when either i assume it has gone by now, or it has built up to the point where I just have to explode!

Thank you all for your advice!

Yeah, one of the main things that bothers me the most when i'm pmsing are my obbsesive thoughts and feelings about bad things to the point that I'll imagine it so strong in my head that I freak out as if it's really happening. (Like getting a shot from the docters)

Changing my mood to a positive one would be good because I'll need all the distraction I can get from my own mind! I'll try watching a funny movie or ask my boyfriend to distract me when ever I start obsesing about bad things.

I'll aslo ask him to put his hand on my head because I like the deep presure on my head. I'll usually put my head underneth pillows or wedg my head in between sofa cushion. I don't need a lot of pressure on my body. Usually a pillow on my back does the trick!

But thank goodness my PMS is over! I'll just have to wait till next time to try them all! Though feel like wedging my head on some cushions!

Someone else mentioned SSRIs, (anti-depressants). I'm not into becoming chemically dependent on drugs to alleviate what is technically natural in my system, but I discovered St. John's Wort a few years ago, it helps a lot. I take griffonia seed with it though, because the St. John's Wort is hard on the liver and griffonia seed is good for the liver.

Unlike SSRIs, you don't have to be weaned off of the natural plant remedy in order to stop taking it.