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I've never had very severe cramps but I do get some menstrual symptoms and sometimes I just want the world to go away. I'm sorry you guys are going through this kind of pain! And yes, a lot of time men, and sometimes other women, are very unsympathetic and don't understand how debilitating this "supposedly normal occurrence" can be. I find clever comments about a woman's "time of the month" quite offensive, even if I'm not that affected myself.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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