Every month, around the same time, your mind turns on you.
A fog trickles in that makes everything feel urgent and broken and wrong.
Your relationship, your career, your friendline, the entire direction of your life.
You find yourself rehearsing conversations that don't need to happen and making decisions you'll walk back in a week.
Convinced that this time, the feeling is telling the truth.
And the most disorienting part isn't the emotion itself. It's that you can't tell whether to trust yourself.
Is this how I actually feel - or is it PMS? Is this a real problem - or am I two weeks out from my period? Should I say this, send this, leave this - or do I wait?
If you’ve ever thought "I wish I could more easily discern when there is a real issue and when it's really PMS.", or"I don't know who to trust - the ovulation me or the PMS me."...
This one’s for you.