Do you ever just feel...scattered?
 

This will probably come off as sounding like some hopless, depressed post but I just feel... crazy and even when I talk about it with my friends i don't feel any better...and i thought maybe someone else out there felt like this.

It's really just today. Today I feel like a crazy, emotional psycho. Do you ever have those days? Where even when you can explain in (and your period often factors into the explaination) you just feel crazier for having a reason? It's like all these silly little nothing things, like, my job isn't really going well, and I'm sick, and i miss my boyfriend who lives far away and who I also had a sort of fight with a little while ago that was never fully resolved, and i have so much to do (but don't we all?). And I just want someone to come hold me so I won't fall apart but even then i still feel off... And maybe it is just hormones but even then shouldn't I feel better? And I keep trying to talk about it but that doesn't help either and ususally talking does... I'll probably feel better in the morning and be horribly embarassed and delete this whole post.. but if anyone out there feels this way or has felt this way... even if you don't have any grand, pscho-fixing advice, please just let me a note here and let me know that you understand

When my period factors into it, sugar, it could go many ways... there's crazy horny Stella, there's crazy weepy Stella, and there's crazy "I swear I want to kick your face in" Stella. Nothing can get me out of that particular crazy when it hits. I hate when I'm furious and can't calm down, and I hate being depressed for absolutely no good reason whatsoever, and it spirals out of control from there. (I can't say I have a problem with the needing of the sex, though....)
You're totally not alone, we've all been through it. Have a cup of tea and read something great, and let yourself be. Yaint crazy.

Yes Nevin sometimes I feel exactly what you're feeling lol

You get upset and start crying and you don't have a clue why! You know that it's becaue of all these little things but at the same time you know they really are little things and wouldn;t normally produce this reaction.

I found the best way for me to get over it is to give in for a 1/2 hour of so bawl my eyes out and I tend to feel better afterwards.

Those days make me feel as if there is a stranger in my body, doing all these things I would never do and reacting a way I would never react. I become horrified with myself and retreat.

Sigh.

Eh... I'm one of the fortunate ones and dont have this problem for the same reasons as you all seem to. with me, its blood sugar related. *hugs* just the same tho, because I'm still here to talk if you need to rant or scream or cry or whatever you need to do.

If its PMS start logging it on a calender. Then when you have those crazy days you can say "okay, this is just hormonal and not a time to make any major life decisions or start a fight".
Eventually, you just talk yourself through it each month and know its not you. If it starts to really interfere with your life though, time to see a doctor.

When I feel that way, it has very little to do with hormones (I've always been like that), but I have three general coping strategies, in no particular order:

1) Talk it out with my husband and/or close friends and family
2) Write about it in my paper journal (occasionally online)
3) Crawl into bed and take a long, hard nap (or eat something, if it's related to my blood-sugar, which happens now and then)

Good luck, hon. Are you on birth control of any kind? That can either help or hurt, in situations like yours. Also, any kind of anti-depressant medication? Exercising regularly? Eating well? All that stuff factors into your moods... take a look at it and see where you might be able to improve an area. :)

Thank you to everyone who replied :) reading everying but esp. replies last night really did make me feel better... just one of those days but it was so weird I just couldn't make myself feel much better...sometimes I think there's just too much going on (not just in my life, in everyone's... we aren't meant to be sitting in offices and traffic away from the people we care about most for hours and hours a day on little sleep and eating poorly... i'm still in college so I can't really compalin about all that, but i do think it's a problem in society). Anyway, I really appreciate everyone who was supportive or had advice-- you really made me feel better than any of my close friends did :)
Thank you!